Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/devel/glib2

[Alistair Crooks <agc%pkgsrc.org@localhost>]

On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 11:58:28PM +0100, Roy Marples wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-04-19 at 17:59 +0100, Roy Marples wrote:
> > What I do care about is adding qa checks to ensure broken packages are 
> > not installed. If you embedded guys care about reducing the need of 
> > dependencies then more power to you as less bloat is always good.
> 
> Just to clarify my position - I am not objecting to the removal of
> gtester-report and dropping the dependency of python, merely justifying
> my actions.

Let's look at this a different way.

"More correct"

1. (frivolous). How? Something is either correct, or it's not. It's
like being more pregnant, or more dead.

2.  For whom?  This change optimises for the pkgsrc developer
community, at the expense of everyone else who uses pkgsrc packages,
binary or otherwise.  I can't think of 2 less "embedded guys" than
Greg and myself, BTW, but whatever.  Please think holistically, for
all of pkgsrc users, and platforms, when making changes like this.

3.  In what way?  More often than not, we don't want correct, we want
usable.

4. Marking. Who gets to decided what is correct? There is no big guy
with a red pen who comes around and says "good, tick, VG, 10/10".
pkgsrc actually gets marked by people who use it. This is a barrier
to use on some platforms, and some architectures, and some real use
cases.

So please revert your changes, and let's discuss them further at a
more suitable time - I didn't get a chance to reply to your previous
mail, and I won't have a good chance to reply again for a while.

Thanks,
Alistair