On Friday, 25 February 2005, at 18:05:42 (+0100), Richard Torkar wrote: > A "hassle" canbe seen as a reason, but I'd love to hear more > background. What was the hassle? What did go wrong? I've seen spec > creation being used in large projects without a problem during > several years,
I don't doubt it. Most projects have atrocious spec files too. > so I'm just curious as to why this was a problem in this project. As > always, I'm asking nicely. I'm not being arrogant - just curious and > maybe stupid :-) 1. Automatically-generated spec files often fail to end up in the release tarball. This prevents "rpmbuild -ta" from working. Your patch has exactly this problem. 2. Automatically-generated spec files lull software maintainers into a false sense of security and are generally left to stagnate. 3. Spec files and the rpm dependency engine are not equivalent to autoFUCK tools and cannot be treated as such. 4. Making spec file changes, like making configure.in changes, can have notable and widespread results and should thus be done as a conscious choice. 5. AutoFUCK tools generate files which differ between systems and between builds. If you have to change your spec file whenever you build, you have issues. Etc. HTH, Michael -- Michael Jennings (a.k.a. KainX) http://www.kainx.org/ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> n + 1, Inc., http://www.nplus1.net/ Author, Eterm (www.eterm.org) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "You can bend over for Blue Cross, and you can bend over for Kaiser. Blue Cross is nice because they give you two ways to bend over." -- anonymous co-worker ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
