Re: 1.99.2 and plugins

From: Michael A. Peters (mpeters@mac.com)
Date: Sun Jul 13 2003 - 06:11:30 EDT

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    I generally don't like spec files with that much complexion.
    My experience is it almost takes as much time to figure out how to get
    it to meet your needs as it does to write a new one.

    Simpler spec files with less options and macros are imho easier to
    implement on different systems as you just change the options passed to
    configure as needed, rather than looking through which macro does what
    and which macro needs to be redefined to do what.

    It's just a matter of different style.
    I also don't like breaking packages into several sub packages - not for
    end user machines anyway (I can understand it for servers where you
    don't want a devel environment installed).

    In this day - disk space is cheap, I can't even find new hard drives
    under 30 gb (except maybe mail order). It thus seems (in my opinion
    anyway) less complicated for the end user to package everything from a
    build in one package.

    Too many times I've seen users frustrated because they installed
    something, it didn't do what they wanted, and the reason was because the
    package had been broken up and they didn't install the right sub
    package.

    It's just a difference in style.
    I'll cc the list with this, others might be curious to why I said I
    didn't like that spec file.

    Nothing about it struck me as bad - just a difference in style.

    On Sun, 2003-07-13 at 00:42, ericzen wrote:
    > On 2003.07.13 02:08 Michael A. Peters wrote:
    > >
    > > Anyway, to my point.
    > > I downloaded the src.rpm from sourceforge and didn't like the spec file
    > > much, so I started from scratch.
    >
    > This is not to list, because it's not that big of a thing, but if I might ask, why wouldn't you like Rui's spec file? They're an absolute dream for adoption, as I am to understand it. It's deep, but it's very functional.
    >
    > Sorry I won't be here when you answer,
    > good night,
    > Eric

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