tor dependency insanity.

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Tue Mar 2 18:22:46 UTC 2010


On Tue, 2010-03-02 at 13:14 -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 09:51:17AM -0800, Jesse Keating wrote:
>  > On Tue, 2010-03-02 at 12:37 -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
>  > > --> Processing Dependency: tor-lsb = 0.2.1.23-1200.fc12 for package:
>  > > tor-0.2.1.23-1200.fc12.i686
>  > 
>  > This is where things go to hell.  Why in the hell is tor-lsb /required/
>  > by tor?  LSB isn't really good for anything except landing a bunch of
>  > crap on your system that you don't really want there.  Making it
>  > required is rather... lame.
> 
> Why do we even bother supporting bullshit standards like LSB ?
> 
> We should make a stand and drop it from Fedora until it's not made up of
> bonghits and failure.  (haha, yeah. thanks, here all week, etc)

I'm not quite sure why it needs separate lsb/upstart init scripts
anyway. Don't most of our packages just include one initscript with both
bits in the headers?
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