On Fri, 02 Jan 2015 22:08:37 +0100, Yamakaky wrote: > > Again, I don't care about the makepkg options, I care about the > > principle of backwards compatibility in general. > > idem, I was going to post about it. "Ralf Mardorf on 2015/01/03 at 3:44 PM said: Hi, don’t get me wrong, most of my scripts start with something similar to if [ “$(id -u)” = “0” ]; then printf “\nDon’t run this script as root :).\n\n”; exit 1; fi However, to claim that software using an option of makepkg is super-bad, because it does use this option and to quote an opinion from folks using another distro, especially if it’s unrelated to backwards compatibility, doesn’t make a wrong decision a good one. If our software is old, we notice some mistakes and it’s good not to continue a mistake. Anyway, revised software should be backwards compatible as much as possible. To drop an option, or even just renaming an option is a bad idea. I guess dropping ‘–asroot’ isn’t a big issue. It’s ok, but consider to keep other software really backwards compatible. It shouldn’t become a fashion to ignore backwards compatibility. Happy New Year! Ralf" - http://allanmcrae.com/2014/12/pacman-4-2-released/#comment-1268 I really wonder why explained opinions need to be attacked with insults. Regarding to quotes about Linux in general, Linus Torvalds might be a better source than Redhat biased mailing lists.
