From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ng0 Subject: Re: midnight commander package fixes, opinions wanted Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2017 11:14:37 +0000 Message-ID: <20170306111437.vdrkqh52pqqes3uz@abyayala> References: <20170301165841.ji65zi4rm2pypeql@abyayala> <20170301170123.37y4d36dziq6ewqo@abyayala> <20170306095527.GA23203@macbook42.flashner.co.il> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34574) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ckpWj-00074k-1m for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Mar 2017 05:06:02 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ckpWe-0008Tl-0x for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Mar 2017 05:06:00 -0500 Received: from perdizione.investici.org ([2001:41d0:2:33d0::19]:26848) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ckpWd-0008TT-PN for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Mar 2017 05:05:55 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20170306095527.GA23203@macbook42.flashner.co.il> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Efraim Flashner Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org 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, > > >=20 > > > I already fixed some of the open issues with our package of 'mc'. > > >=20 > > > I think people will expect features to just work and not being brok= en > > > (as they are right now). > > > My personal opinion ignored, how do you want to proceed? The vim wa= y > > > where we have $package (basic, as small as it gets) and $package-fu= ll > > > (with all the features you can have enabled)? > > >=20 > > > I'd like to hear your opionion so that I can proceed fixing mc with > > > what we agreed on. > > >=20 > >=20 > > 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. > >=20 >=20 > 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. >=20 > 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". >=20 > --=20 > Efraim Flashner =D7=90=D7=A4=D7=A8=D7=99=D7= =9D =D7=A4=D7=9C=D7=A9=D7=A0=D7=A8 > GPG key =3D A28B F40C 3E55 1372 662D 14F7 41AA E7DC CA3D 8351 > Confidentiality cannot be guaranteed on emails sent or received unencry= pted 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.