On Mon, Sep 04, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
On Monday 2017-09-04 18:33, Thorsten Kukuk wrote:
On Mon, Sep 04, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
Same with the openSUSE wiki concerning package submissions: There is a lot of "best practice", where it does not matter how exactly this is done, only that it is done. Like it makes no difference if you use a brown or a black bag.
Best practices can also be specified for the how, not just the what.
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Best practices exist to be achieved. Otherwise, having these BP would be quite pointless.
I admit that calling it "best practice" by me was a bad choice. "A best practice is a method or technique that has been generally accepted as superior to any alternatives because it produces results that are superior to those achieved by other means ..." (wikipedia) Coming back to your pet example: standarizing the color of the bag to black is clearly no best practice, since it does not produce superior results compared to the brown bag. Same for the questionable parts of the openSUSE packaging guidelines. In the end you can even say that some of the parts are the opposite of best practice, since it limits the result to openSUSE only. Thorsten -- Thorsten Kukuk, Distinguished Engineer, Senior Architect SLES & CaaSP SUSE LINUX GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nuernberg, Germany GF: Felix Imendoerffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton, HRB 21284 (AG Nuernberg) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+owner@opensuse.org