On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 05:43:05PM +0200, Leonard den Ottolander wrote: > On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 17:23, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > > suppose i prefer configure && make && stow ... > > Patch is your friend. Or just chown and chmod afterwards. > you needn't to educate _me_. now that i identified the problem and patched my checkout i could not care less.
> > do you really expect every new user to do a bughunt as the first thing? > > I'd expect most new users to use a distro that sets this up properly for > them. > you shouldn't. particularly, you should not force them to do so by making either way of installation harder in unexpected ways. > IMO this is more of a documentation issue than a build issue. Maybe > we should add a note to the README. > readmes are only read when the installation is non-obvious in the first place or when a problem suggesting a user fault occurs. personally, i'd assume it's a bug or the feature is missing alltogether. > > also, don't underestimate the "usage rate" of the upstream build > > system. it is the de-facto standard of installing 3rd-party unix > > software. > > Any statistics on this? > i don't think percentages matter in this case. there is a non-trivial amount of users that use this method, even if it is only 1% of the total number. but the other 99% are outright irrelevant to that matter. > By the way, afaik cons.saver is only used on Linux. > i think freebsd was discussed some time ago. anyway, what's the point? > > what type of eventualities do you talk about? > > Possible introduction of bugs when somebody should start touching this > code. > oh, c'mon, the idiot that touches a suid/sgid program without thoroughly considering the consequences should be stoned anyway. maybe the blob at the top of the file should be made more explicit to protect against roland^Wpeople that tend to commit faster than they think. ;) -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! -- Chaos, panic, and disorder - my work here is done. _______________________________________________ Mc-devel mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc-devel