From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?David_K=E5gedal?= Subject: Re: "Read my lips: no more merges" - aka Linux 2.6.14-rc1 Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 10:39:08 +0200 Message-ID: References: <7255.1126583985@kao2.melbourne.sgi.com> <1126674993.5681.9.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1126745323.7199.3.camel@localhost.localdomain> <43290486.5020301@zytor.com> <7v7jdibwqq.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Sep 15 10:43:34 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EFpJf-0004JG-Ky for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 15 Sep 2005 10:42:00 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932198AbVIOIlp convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Sep 2005 04:41:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932217AbVIOIlp (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Sep 2005 04:41:45 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:20690 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932198AbVIOIlo (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Sep 2005 04:41:44 -0400 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1EFpHw-0003vm-PB for git@vger.kernel.org; Thu, 15 Sep 2005 10:40:12 +0200 Received: from 212214120186-virtutech-ab.host.songnetworks.se ([212.214.120.186]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 15 Sep 2005 10:40:12 +0200 Received: from davidk by 212214120186-virtutech-ab.host.songnetworks.se with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 15 Sep 2005 10:40:12 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: git@vger.kernel.org X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 212214120186-virtutech-ab.host.songnetworks.se User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:sq+DS+ZqDwoOEr70Oot4LG79xQI= Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Junio C Hamano writes: > "H. Peter Anvin" writes: > >> Linus Torvalds wrote: >>> On Wed, 14 Sep 2005, Alejandro Bonilla Beeche wrote: >>> >>>>debian:~# cd linux-2.6/ >>>>debian:~/linux-2.6# git log >>>>/usr/local/bin/git-log-script: line 4: less: command not found >>> A very strange Linux installation that doesn't come with "less"... >>> What a strange box. Anyway, that does point out that maybe the git >>> RPM spec should have "less" as a dependency. >> >> Generally you want to honour $PAGER if it is defined. > > We do, in the form of "something | ${PAGER:-less}". > > On Debian, "less" is Priority "standard" and my understanding is > that the only thing we can (and should if I recall correctly) > omit from the dependency list is the packages of Priority > "essential", so technically we are required to list "less" as > our dependency. I do not know about RPM/Fedora. On my Debian system, there is a "sensible-pager" which does a ${PAGER:-pager}, and "pager" which is a symlink to an installed pager (using the 'alternatives' system). So a Debian package should probably use one of those. --=20 David K=E5gedal