Re: [Pkg-javascript-devel] whether or not to sometimes remove questionably useful binaries from node modules

2014-07-01 Thread Jérémy Lal
Le lundi 30 juin 2014 à 18:59 -0700, Andrew Kelley a écrit : from #debian-multimedia fsateler andrewrk: why did you remove the ncp binary? andrewrk fsateler, it clutters up the global bin namespace, and why would you ever use it instead of plain old cp ? it doesn't clutter the namespace,

Re: [Pkg-javascript-devel] whether or not to sometimes remove questionably useful binaries from node modules

2014-07-01 Thread Jérémy Lal
Le mardi 01 juillet 2014 à 04:58 +, Felipe Sateler a écrit : On Mon, 30 Jun 2014 18:59:03 -0700, Andrew Kelley wrote: from #debian-multimedia fsateler andrewrk: why did you remove the ncp binary? andrewrk fsateler, it clutters up the global bin namespace, and why would you ever

Re: [Pkg-javascript-devel] whether or not to sometimes remove questionably useful binaries from node modules

2014-07-01 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Jérémy Lal (2014-07-01 16:35:59) Andrew, modifications you make to the upstream files are supposed to be done in one of two ways (and directly removing files from the gbp repository is not a way): - repackage upstream tarball to exclude files for DFSG reasons The simplest way to

[Pkg-javascript-devel] whether or not to sometimes remove questionably useful binaries from node modules

2014-06-30 Thread Andrew Kelley
from #debian-multimedia fsateler andrewrk: why did you remove the ncp binary? andrewrk fsateler, it clutters up the global bin namespace, and why would you ever use it instead of plain old cp ? andrewrk it seems common for node module authors to include useless binaries with their libraries