On Thu, 21 Mar 2019 at 07:53, Stephen John Smoogen <smooge@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > When people see lists like this they are going to assume it is order > of importance because if X is used N many more times, it must be much > more important than Y. Most packagers are not because most packages wow.. I need a better editor (and probably author). Most packagers are not aware of the importance of flags because most packages are just things they put up with for the thing they really want to get done. [Which is an ugly run-on sentence and probably in the passive voice and a bunch of other things.] > are just things they do so they can get what they really want done. > That may be a sad state to some, but the majority of packages in > Fedora are the commons on which the cattle (packages people do things > with) graze on. If I am a perl/python/erlang/nodejs/ghc/R packager and > I get a report that something down in my stack has 2 > -Wmisleading-indentations and 485 -Wmissing-profiles.. I am going to > assume that the upstream wanted it that way since all I did was copy > this spec file from another one and use the defaults. If I get > something with the tool I actually am familiar with > (perl/python/erlang/etc) I might be better atuned to knowing that flag > X or dependency Y is important.. but in the end I might really just > want emacs-nethack.el to be a package and I won't have a clue if any > of the above was important. So we need to make sure it is clear when > we add something to a report why it is important. > > > > kloczek > > -- > > Tomasz Kłoczko | LinkedIn: http://lnkd.in/FXPWxH > > _______________________________________________ > > devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html > > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > > List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > > -- > Stephen J Smoogen. -- Stephen J Smoogen. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
