[Mageia-dev] Minimal patching vs. fixing the whole Universe

Thu Jun 23 03:51:55 CEST 2011

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 packages that use python, for a total of 20,000 *.py files. 
+> now what, the limited resources of a distro should be used to "patch optimally" the first line of all those 20,000 *.py files, just because this would mean to use a common policy?
+> _regardless_ of the fact that those files actually run?
+
+
+Technically, we can use scripts, like we do for stripping the 50 000
+binaries that can be found in */bin/ 
+
+Or like we do to have the same compression on the 85000 man pages,
+instead of patching every Makefile in order to use xz instead of
+nothing, gz, bz2.
+
+And we even manage to have the same C flags for compilation. So
+stripping env should be a big issue, if found desirable.
+
+After all, we already detect python to add a dependency on the
+interpreter in rpm, so the logic is already present.
+
+-- 
+Michael Scherer
+
+