From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: swedebugia Subject: Re: Nano: disable hard wrapping by default Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2018 09:04:17 +0100 Message-ID: <57fa27a8-3301-2d96-ed75-81e0671a1494@riseup.net> References: <20181107182024.GA14925@jasmine.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44818) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gLkjU-00010j-0X for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Nov 2018 03:04:39 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gLkjK-0007KJ-GT for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Nov 2018 03:04:32 -0500 Received: from mx1.riseup.net ([198.252.153.129]:43060) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gLkjG-00076z-Aj for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Nov 2018 03:04:23 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20181107182024.GA14925@jasmine.lan> Content-Language: en-US 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: Leo Famulari Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org On 2018-11-07 19:20, Leo Famulari wrote: snip > In general, we don't change upstream defaults in Guix except when it's > required for portability or to fix really egregious problems (i.e. > security bugs). This is different from distros like Debian that > basically fork the software and make a huge number of changes to suit > the package maintainer's taste. > > This keeps package maintenance relatively easy for us and ensures that > important changes get pushed upstream so that all users can benefit. > > Having said that, this line wrapping thing is a very bad default, and I > think we should change it. Nano is one of the editors in the GuixSD > installer. It needs to be easy to use. > > If we change the default in our package, we need to file a bug upstream: > > https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=nano > Agreed. :) -- Cheers Swedebugia