Re: [dev] [dwm] Fedora package

On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 01:14:15PM +0000, Anselm R Garbe wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 03:11:05PM +0200, Petr Sabata wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 12:23:56PM +0000, Kurt H Maier wrote:
> > > I understand that you software packagers are a special breed, and
> > > having even one binary not subject to the rigors of packaging can
> > > cause you to lose sleep, but every time you people pull this shit we
> > > get an influx of idiots in irc, spamming about how they can patch dwm
> > > to act like fluxbox, patch fluxbox to act like dwm, or convert their
> > > wm to use some kind of embedded python executable config syntax.
> > >
> > > For the love of god, can you at least include a notification in the
> > > package to the effect that, if someone thinks installing a binary dwm
> > > package is a good idea, they can fuck right off and never come to
> > > #suckless for "support"?
> > > --
> > > # Kurt H Maier
> > >
> >
> > Would you feel more comfortable with this?
>
> If this is part of the fedora package I'd be very happy with this. Certainly I
> don't intend to include distro specific notes into the mainline man page as
> this doesn't sound like the right place.

I know it's not the best place but I think there isn't a better alternative
at the moment. The first paragraph is part of 5.8.2-3; the rest will be
added in 5.8.2-4.

Petr

>
> Cheers,
> Anselm
>

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