On Wed, 2011-09-14 at 12:22 +0100, Ross Burton wrote: > On 14 September 2011 11:43, Milan Crha <mc...@redhat.com> wrote: > > why is that? I can imagine couple useful things being tight to the > > maintainer mode, also those aforementioned deprecated stuff being in use > > only for maintainers, not for regular users, like is done here [1]. > > Other users in this thread gave also reasonable examples of a usage of > > the maintainer mode, not only for a makefile generation. > > Because maintainer mode existing is really annoying when you are a > packager, and tying arbitrary unrelated changes to an option that is > documented as only changing the make rules is just wrong. > > --enable-maintainer-mode enable make rules and dependencies not useful > (and sometimes confusing) to the casual installer
Hi, the above help string might then just suggest that I would rather define my own --enable-maintainer-mode when I want to cover more things under it. > Options should do one clearly defined thing. What if a packager needs > maintainer mode off but wants the GTK+ integration? If you mean for the eds, then it's intentionally available for maintainers only. And to be honest, it's for bug-buddy, to be registered on the factory and catch any background crashes. Eds is still able to run without gtk environment, it's "only larger" on a lib dependency. Bye, Milan _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list