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On Sun, 21 Jul 2019 00:33:00 +0200 Michał Górny wrote: |
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> On Sat, 2019-07-20 at 18:16 -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> > On Sat, Jul 20, 2019 at 4:22 PM Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote: |
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> > > |
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> > > Yes, I get it. User experience is not important if it would mean |
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> > > developers would actually do anything but the bare minimum to get |
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> > > from one paycheck to another. The usual Gentoo attitude. |
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> > > |
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> > |
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> > Not sure where I go to sign up for those paychecks. However, even |
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> > employers have to accept that policies have a resource cost to them. |
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> > |
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> > Requiring people to do more than the bare minimum often just ensures |
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> > that they won't even bother to do the bare minimum. I'm all for |
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> > finding ways to standardize things so that everybody benefits at a |
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> > very low cost. This doesn't seem that, and honestly requiring |
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> > packages to bundle pre-built manpages seems a bit non-Gentooish to |
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> > begin with. |
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> > |
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> |
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> Then you should go and strip all those pregenerated autotools files, |
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> and require eautoreconf from every single package. |
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This might be a good idea, actually. Version mismatch between |
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shipped pregenerated files and system autotools occasionally causes |
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some problems. |
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Best regards, |
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Andrew Savchenko |
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