Charles Plessy <[email protected]> writes: > The proposed patch puts additional constraints on the packages, that > would make more difficult refactor later the Policy towards make a > clearer abstraction of the build interface (which I think is desirable),
I don't believe this is desirable at all, and therefore oppose this proposal. There is such a thing as too much freedom of choice. Debian already has a very complex package build system compared to RPM-based Linux distributions, with a corresponding difficulty in learning curve. Allowing people to write debian/rules in other languages, allowing unusual make flags, or allowing tricky variable manipulation outside of the make language such as in the vdr packages just adds to that complexity and learning curve. I think Debian suffers from that additional complexity. -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
