* ; XXX: remove when Inetutils suffices
@ 2019-03-13 15:44 mikadoZero
2019-03-13 16:22 ` Leo Famulari
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From: mikadoZero @ 2019-03-13 15:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Guix-devel
system.scm line 537:
net-tools ; XXX: remove when Inetutils suffices
git log -L 537,537:system.scm outputs:
commit 6f436c54d6d9698e62639de31a845cd9b9167423
Date: Wed Jun 4 2014
This comment was committed in 2014. Is inetutils at the point where
net-tools can be removed?
If it is then I can submit a patch to remove the line.
What does XXX in a comment mean? I have seen it a couple times.
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* Re: ; XXX: remove when Inetutils suffices
2019-03-13 15:44 ; XXX: remove when Inetutils suffices mikadoZero
@ 2019-03-13 16:22 ` Leo Famulari
2019-03-13 16:51 ` mikadoZero
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From: Leo Famulari @ 2019-03-13 16:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: mikadoZero; +Cc: Guix-devel
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On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 11:44:20AM -0400, mikadoZero wrote:
> system.scm line 537:
>
> net-tools ; XXX: remove when Inetutils suffices
>
> git log -L 537,537:system.scm outputs:
>
> commit 6f436c54d6d9698e62639de31a845cd9b9167423
> Date: Wed Jun 4 2014
>
> This comment was committed in 2014. Is inetutils at the point where
> net-tools can be removed?
Someone would have to audit the uses of the programs in net-tools and
decide if they are no longer needed in the base system, and if users do
not expect them anymore. They are old and venerable so they are sort of
sticky at this point, even if they no longer represent the state of the
art.
> What does XXX in a comment mean? I have seen it a couple times.
It indicates something undesirable. Like a really nasty hack to
work-around something or a problem upstream that we have no good
solution for. Sort of like TODO but with extra complications.
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* Re: ; XXX: remove when Inetutils suffices
2019-03-13 16:22 ` Leo Famulari
@ 2019-03-13 16:51 ` mikadoZero
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From: mikadoZero @ 2019-03-13 16:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Leo Famulari; +Cc: Guix-devel
Leo Famulari writes:
>> What does XXX in a comment mean? I have seen it a couple times.
>
> It indicates something undesirable. Like a really nasty hack to
> work-around something or a problem upstream that we have no good
> solution for. Sort of like TODO but with extra complications.
Thanks for the explanation.
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