Re: midnight commander package fixes, opinions wanted

[ng0 <contact.ng0@cryptolab.net>]

On 17-03-06 11:55:27, Efraim Flashner wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 01, 2017 at 05:01:23PM +0000, ng0 wrote:
> > On 17-03-01 16:58:41, ng0 wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > I already fixed some of the open issues with our package of 'mc'.
> > > 
> > > I think people will expect features to just work and not being broken
> > > (as they are right now).
> > > My personal opinion ignored, how do you want to proceed? The vim way
> > > where we have $package (basic, as small as it gets) and $package-full
> > > (with all the features you can have enabled)?
> > > 
> > > I'd like to hear your opionion so that I can proceed fixing mc with
> > > what we agreed on.
> > > 
> > 
> > And also your opinion, I don't know what an opionion is but it sounds
> > like opium combined with onion and I don't want that.
> > 
> 
> I've been sitting on a patch for ranger for a while. I also couldn't
> decide between packaging just ranger or also linking in the various
> programs it calls.
> 
> I think that if mc would use libcaca to display an image, and just
> installing libcaca in profile would satisfy that dependancy, then
> leaving it out is "not great, but acceptable".
> 
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It's not that easy. The references to applications are absolute
using '/usr/{bin,sbin}' and similar ones.

Maybe it's possible to just use the application name, but that depends
on the context in the code, etc.