On Jan 5, 2006, at 7:07 PM, Chris Zubrzycki wrote:
I am against this. If policy says the -e is needed, and a package doesn't, it's a bug.
But there is no policy on this; at least, I couldn't find any in the packaging documentation. And even if there were, wouldn't it be easier to enforce the policy in Fink itself rather than expecting packagers to remember to do it?
Trying to fix it with a fink flag will just cause confusion. What happens when some people use -e, or -xe, etc.?
If a package is already passing a -e parameter to the shell, Fink can simply leave it as it is, otherwise the default (-e) can be added. I don't see how that causes any confusion.
I say filing a bug is enough.
I wish it were, but there are too many open items (currently 100+) in the package submission tracker as it is. I think we should be looking for ways to reduce that count. Filing bugs for every package that has this problem would only increase it.
Trevor
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