Am 11.07.2015 um 14:36 schrieb Doug Newgard:
On Fri, 10 Jul 2015 15:33:11 -0400
Quint Guvernator <[email protected]> wrote:
Karol,
On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 3:23 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
karol_007 [1] filed a deletion request for gg [2]:
The PKGBUILD is longer that the script it packages
Great. Why is this a problem?
I put it `gg` on the AUR to make sure I was familiar with the new aur4
process. I find `gg` useful, and I hope other Arch users will too.
$ wc -c PKGBUILD gg msg.txt
428 PKGBUILD
255 gg
607 msg.txt
Scott Adams said: "Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no
problems handily available, they will create their own problems."
Cheers,
Quint
As a script, this makes little sense. All you're really doing is shortening a
single command, which is much better done with an alias. You shouldn't even
need the 'sudo' if this is local.
I agree that it really shouldn't be in the AUR.
I agree, that it is a bad script, should not contain sudo and could be
solved otherwise. What I don't agree with is this totally random way of
deciding what's supposed to be okay and what not. I cannot find rules
about what's okay. The same type of behavior lead to the removal of
ddate from util-linux, because of the possible implications for some
people with an arbitrary set of "traditional moral values"[1].
Instead of simply removing it from the AUR, we should file a bug report
to solve the sudo problem (polkit integration perhaps?), this should
also generate enough code to solve the "PKGBUILD longer than script"
problem, a problem that might also happen with very dense Perl regex.
Maybe adding the license text to the script might satisfy the wc -l
in-depth analysis.
[1]https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=149321
