On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Burton M. Strauss III wrote:
> Wrong... that's a narrow-minded (RedHat) view of the world...
Admittedly. You seemed to be saying 'this is going to be a pain for
redhat folks' and I'm like 'most redhat folks are just going to install
the rpm and not care' which your information seems to support:
> Check the download counts at SourceForge... there are typically almost
> as many source downloads as rpm downloads.
So most of the downloads are the rpm, meaning that the spec file is doing
it's job for most of the redhat users. And wouldn't most of the source
downloads probably not be redhat users?
> Plus, that totally excludes the downloads from snapshot (15GB in 3
> months) and Debian, etc.
And each will hopefully have it's own spec file equivalent.
The more general point from all of this would be that complicating the
build scripts with ad-hocery isn't that effective these days. Ripping it
out (as we're happy to hear you're in the process of doing) will certainly
add some compile-time directives that people have to get used to, but it
seems like the wisest thing to do.
--
</chris>
The truth is rarely pure, and never simple.
-Oscar Wilde, writer (1854-1900)
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