On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 08:57:48AM -0800, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 09:20 -0600, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> "AT" == Axel Thimm Axel.Thimm@ATrpms.net writes:
AT> Request for voting on dropping the *mandatory* from the guidelines AT> and explicitely cast it into a *suggestion*
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-1 This puts us back where we started. It was a suggestion until recently. The fact that it wasn't mandatory just confused reviewers and made people debate the issue over and over inside of bugzilla.
which is the same now when a half-hearted buildroot is made mandatory. If you want to make something mandatory it has to be something worth doing so.
The buildroot that only covers a seldom corner case of multiple users building the same package while ignoring the far more common use case of building i386 and x86_64 on x86_64 (for F7 we're making even more multilib developping noise) is just not worth putting in specfiles lest to cast it into an iron mandatory part.
Let's move forward:
- Make a clear rule on a buildroot value that fixes the technical
issues.
We made that rule. BTW was it ratified? Still it will see opposition just like the id -un rule. And any other buildroot is suggested.
So let us just stop suggesting a buildroot (or at least stop dictating one). "If it works, it's OK". And any other funny corner case can indeed bend buildroots at will, right?