tor-lsb -- hey, look, package script, don't complain to _me_. I'm just installing you.

Chen Lei supercyper1 at gmail.com
Sun May 30 05:38:15 UTC 2010


2010/5/30 Matthew Miller <mattdm at mattdm.org>:
> On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 12:06:12AM -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
>> See: https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/347
>
> Yeah, I remember this coming up before with the issue of zillions of
> dependencies.
>
> The problem here is the output. I know (as discussed in that ticket,
> actually) that the Fedora guidelines don't forbid output in the post
> scripts. I think it _should_ be forbidden except in the case of errors, but
> that's not the issue here. The problem is _what_ the message says, its tone,
> and to whom it is addressed. All unhelpful and bad for Fedora.
>
> --
> Matthew Miller           mattdm at mattdm.org          <http://mattdm.org/>
> --

It's actually the same problem and both caused by the misusing of
redhat-lsb. The tor package looks very different from other daemons in
fedora, e.g. vsftpd squid etc, a small package with so many
subpackages and a metapackage seems quite strange.


Chen Lei


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