I'm known to be grumpy and difficult, but I also believe in simplicity as a
policy, therefore I'd like to ask you something.
By no means I want to question Ahmad's judgment, however I strongly disagree
with him on one point. As a _principle_. Otherwise, it's a tiny punctual
question, but I'd
2011/6/22 Radu-Cristian FOTESCU beranger...@yahoo.ca:
I'm known to be grumpy and difficult, but I also believe in simplicity as a
policy, therefore I'd like to ask you something.
By no means I want to question Ahmad's judgment, however I strongly disagree
with him on one point. As a
We don't have any python2 symlink or binary on mageia.
That was not the question. The question was whether '/usr/bin/env python2'
should be patched into '/usr/bin/env python' or into '/usr/bin/python'.
The more general question was whether all the upstream packages should be
optimized.
When
On 22 June 2011 22:47, Radu-Cristian FOTESCU beranger...@yahoo.ca wrote:
I'm known to be grumpy and difficult, but I also believe in simplicity as a
policy, therefore I'd like to ask you something.
By no means I want to question Ahmad's judgment, however I strongly disagree
with him on one
On 22 June 2011 23:14, Ahmad Samir ahmadsamir3...@gmail.com wrote:
On 22 June 2011 22:47, Radu-Cristian FOTESCU beranger...@yahoo.ca wrote:
I'm known to be grumpy and difficult, but I also believe in simplicity as a
policy, therefore I'd like to ask you something.
By no means I want to
Actually, I said that the shebang should be removed altogether. Which
is what was being done all those years calibre existed in the Mandriva
repos (the same for Fedora, since they do remove the shebang, as the
calibre spec was originally imported from Fedora, which I said in the
report
Op woensdag 22 juni 2011 22:47:40 schreef Radu-Cristian FOTESCU:
I would say that the general principle should be to apply a _minimal_
patching, not to try to rewrite the work of the developers of hundreds of
packages!
A distro's job is not to judge the work of the _upstream_ developers as
Also, /usr/bin/python2 doesn't exist to begin with, as mikala pointed out.
As I repointed, the question was not that one. As long as calibre has used
env with python, not python2, it worked. Now that the developer changed that,
the least intrusive way would be to just remove the 2.
I
On Wed, 22 Jun 2011, Radu-Cristian FOTESCU wrote:
A distro's job is not to judge the work of the _upstream_ developers as long
as this is not a real bug.
But it's to integrate software, and apply common policy to all of them.
A distro's job is not to judge the work of the _upstream_ developers as
long as this is not a real bug.
But it's to integrate software, and apply common policy to all of them.
ok, say a distro has 200 packages that use python, for a total of 20,000 *.py
files.
now what, the limited
'Twas brillig, and David W. Hodgins at 22/06/11 22:51 did gyre and gimble:
On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 16:47:40 -0400, Radu-Cristian FOTESCU
beranger...@yahoo.ca wrote:
As long as '/usr/bin/env python' _works_, I see no point in trying to
rewrite other people's work.
Excluding the calibre
Op woensdag 22 juni 2011 23:51:02 schreef David W. Hodgins:
On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 16:47:40 -0400, Radu-Cristian FOTESCU
beranger...@yahoo.ca wrote:
As long as '/usr/bin/env python' _works_, I see no point in trying to
rewrite other people's work.
Excluding the calibre scripts, in /usr/bin
On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 18:08:35 -0400, Colin Guthrie mag...@colin.guthr.ie wrote:
2) /usr/bin/python prevents you testing easily with a new python
version (or just a new build) in a custom prefix).
Running something like /usr/bin/python2.7 /usr/bin/calibre ignores the
shebang, so it's still
Le mercredi 22 juin 2011 à 23:08 +0100, Colin Guthrie a écrit :
'Twas brillig, and David W. Hodgins at 22/06/11 22:51 did gyre and gimble:
On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 16:47:40 -0400, Radu-Cristian FOTESCU
beranger...@yahoo.ca wrote:
As long as '/usr/bin/env python' _works_, I see no point in
Le mercredi 22 juin 2011 à 14:39 -0700, Radu-Cristian FOTESCU a écrit :
A distro's job is not to judge the work of the _upstream_ developers as
long as this is not a real bug.
But it's to integrate software, and apply common policy to all of them.
ok, say a distro has 200
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