From: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>
To: ng0@n0.is
Cc: 30037@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#30037] [PATCH] gnu: whois: Remove bundled mkpasswd.
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2018 17:46:17 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <65a6b7e7-afca-cc9e-d1b7-cf23038800d4@tobias.gr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180109065157.j4ffqj7rye5wwike@abyayala>
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ng0,
ng0 wrote on 09/01/18 at 07:51:
> or you could move the mkpasswd to its own output.
That's not (a step towards) unbundling, though, is it?
> I think you want to look into the old discussions around this. I
> don't remember why this wasn't chosen, all I know is that upstream
> made it very clear to me that they won't separate mkpasswd.
OK, I found this thread[0] on guix-devel. I'd only checked guix-patches.
I can somewhat understand your use of the word ‘bundle’ in the TODO
comment — or at least where it came from — but it's pretty misleading in
that context. As you rightly noted:
Ludo'> Why to you call that “unbundling”?
ng0> Wrong choice of words.
[...]
ng0> It's annoying that two unrelated applications are thrown
ng0> into one distribution/package.
It would have been nice to adjust the comment at that point, or mention
that this ‘mkpasswd’ is unrelated to the better-known Expect ‘mkpasswd’.
(Hark, this one doesn't even mk passwds! For maximum irony, it was
renamed from ‘cryptpw’, which perfectly described its purpose...)
Since this is its own thing, for better or worse, I agree with the
others in that thread that it should remain part of this package/output
until upstream repents.
Kind regards,
T G-R
[0]: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2017-01/msg00504.html
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-01-09 16:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-01-09 1:01 [bug#30037] [PATCH] gnu: whois: Remove bundled mkpasswd Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2018-01-09 1:04 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2018-01-09 6:51 ` ng0
2018-01-09 16:46 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice [this message]
2018-01-10 14:55 ` ng0
2018-01-10 15:57 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2018-01-09 13:36 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-01-09 16:46 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2018-01-09 17:05 ` Marius Bakke
2018-01-10 14:46 ` ng0
2018-01-10 15:26 ` bug#30037: " Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2018-01-10 17:17 ` [bug#30037] " ng0
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