On Monday 2019-07-01 10:06, Bernhard M. Wiedemann wrote:
On 01/07/2019 07.31, Simon Lees wrote:
If you have examples of "bureaucracy" that you think could be reduced or removed this list is the place to discuss them, although this thread was about a bot blocking a certain style rather then causing someone significantly more effort.
I remember some years ago kkaempf told the story how he packaged something to build for both Fedora and openSUSE. Fedora accepted the package, openSUSE didnt - because there were some (possibly openSUSE-only) macros that "could have been used".
Sounds a bit vague, but oh well. If you still write `make install DESTDIR=..` in 2019, of course you will be pointed to %make_install. Or to a spec formatter, whichever comes first. openSUSE has a large(?) German involvement, and, stereotypically, we like everything so neat and tidy that it appears bureaucratic to others. But it _is_ tidy, and we are held to such standards if and when they matter (mostly when U+1F4A9 hits a rotating metal blade device ;-).
So by striving to have uniform, easy-to-maintain packages we get less packages. And less packagers, too.
And yet, openSUSE is among the distros with the highest package counts (whether that is good or bad, I'll put aside), so the situation is not too bad. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org