On Sun, 2026-02-15 at 14:05 +0100, Michael J Gruber wrote:
> Andreas Haupt venit, vidit, dixit 2026-02-15 09:30:08:
> > Dear all,
> > 
> > I'm wondering how to package lesspipe for Fedora/EPEL best. Review request
> > is here:
> > 
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2417806
> > 
> > lesspipe itself is an indepedent development from the built-in preprocessor
> > for less. It comes with with a rich feature set which enhances the less user
> > experience. Features are described here:
> > 
> > https://lesspipe.org/docs.html
> > 
> > Unfortunately, as it uses the same concept like less' built-in preprocessor,
> > it conflicts with its lesspipe.sh script. Therefore I just moved stuff into
> > /usr/libexec/lesspipe in order to avoid naming conflicts. This works well,
> > but Christian Le pointed out in the review, it might cause user trouble in
> > some cases.
> 
> Which problems? It's not clear to me from the review. Users of less and
> LESSOPEN should be technically versed enough to set LESSOPEN in the
> environment of all process which they want to use it.
> 
> That being said, the "less" package in Fedora already ships
> "lesspipe.sh" from an external source (not the builtin)

Note this is a relatively recent change:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2308285
I wasn't that keen on it either, but ultimately it was the packager's
choice, and they addressed the immediate breakage it caused.
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