Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (883 mails)

[Vincent Untz <vuntz@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Le jeudi 10 mai 2012, à 13:32 +0200, Stephan Kulow a écrit :
> Am 10.05.2012 12:02, schrieb Vincent Untz:
> > Le jeudi 10 mai 2012, à 05:55 -0400, Dominique Leuenberger a écrit :
> > > before you send all kind of SRs (as  you already started):
> > > Maybe we can finalize the discussion here and get consensus that this
> > > is wishful and helpful?
> > >
> > > What do we gain (not hypothetical, but real), what do we risk?
> > >
> > > IMHO: diverting from what an upstream provides / proposes in such
> > > cases should be well understood and not 'just done'.
> >
> > And also: why not just do it upstream first and wait for the next
> > upstream tarball? Is this really urgent?
> Like Richard said: it makes sense to use it for upstream developers and
> it's a valid distribution optimization (if it really matters) to remove it.

Sure, but it makes no sense for a distribution to carry a patch forever
for this. It just makes our life more difficult in the long term.

In general, I'm pretty much against non-upstream patches changing the
build system unless there's a really good reason for them. Optimization
is not a good enough reason for me: if the optimization matters, it
should be of interest to other distros too and so should be upstreamable
in some way anyway.

Cheers,

Vincent

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