On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 6:01 AM, Robby Workman <[email protected]> wrote: : > > Off is the general direction in which you can fuck. > > In our internal discussions about adding REQUIRES, one of the most > frequent concerns was "feature creep," i.e. "if we do that, then > people are going to want $whatever." Seriously - just stop. Sure, > a lot of things would be nice to have - there's no technical reason > that licensing and optional dependencies and ErdösNumbers of the > upstream authors and $DEITY knows what else, but unless you have a > REALLY REALLY REALLY convincing case as to why it's superior to > what we have now, refer back to the second (one sentence) paragraph. > > That is all. >
While I think that we could have done without the decorative nature of the language contained in the mail above, I also would not like to see the info file burdened with information of dubious importance. Consider the originally requested LICENSE field. How shall we decide what abides to what and under which definition and by which authority. Writing SlackBuilds is fun because it is not very different from what you would have wanted to to write for your own local system. Therefore the process provides an efficient method on how users may contribute to the "Slackware Experience" without having to go too much out of their way. Let's keep it this way; fun. _______________________________________________ SlackBuilds-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slackbuilds.org/mailman/listinfo/slackbuilds-users Archives - http://lists.slackbuilds.org/pipermail/slackbuilds-users/ FAQ - http://slackbuilds.org/faq/
