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Re: [PATCH] gnu: whois: Move mkpasswd to its own output.
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Ludovic Courtès |
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Re: [PATCH] gnu: whois: Move mkpasswd to its own output. |
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Mon, 09 Jan 2017 15:29:13 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1 (gnu/linux) |
Hey,
ng0 <address@hidden> skribis:
> Mkpasswd has nothing to do with whois, and upstream says so. I
> think we should be able to install whois and just have whois, not
> some random "historical bundled" binary in addition to whois.
> I'm just stating the sizes as in comparison to the other outputs
> they sometimes matter even if its just KiB.
>
> Like I've written in the opening email, another approach could be
> to simply delete mkpasswd from the output build and create an
> 'mkpasswd' package (inheriting from whois) which does the same
> for whois.
I might be overlooking something, but my gut reaction is that (1) it’s
not “bundling” in that we don’t have any other package providing
mkpasswd, and (2) it’s up to upstream to decide whether or not to
distribute mkpasswd.
WDYT?
Ludo’.
- "unbundle" mkpasswd from whois., ng0, 2017/01/04
- [PATCH] gnu: whois: Move mkpasswd to its own output., ng0, 2017/01/04
- Re: [PATCH] gnu: whois: Move mkpasswd to its own output., Ludovic Courtès, 2017/01/09
- Re: [PATCH] gnu: whois: Move mkpasswd to its own output., ng0, 2017/01/09
- Re: [PATCH] gnu: whois: Move mkpasswd to its own output.,
Ludovic Courtès <=
- Re: [PATCH] gnu: whois: Move mkpasswd to its own output., ng0, 2017/01/09
- Whois: Update to 5.2.14, ng0, 2017/01/09
- [PATCH] gnu: whois: Update to 5.2.14., ng0, 2017/01/09
- Re: [PATCH] gnu: whois: Update to 5.2.14., Leo Famulari, 2017/01/09
- Re: [PATCH] gnu: whois: Move mkpasswd to its own output., ng0, 2017/01/20
- Re: [PATCH] gnu: whois: Move mkpasswd to its own output., Hartmut Goebel, 2017/01/20
- Re: [PATCH] gnu: whois: Move mkpasswd to its own output., Ludovic Courtès, 2017/01/20
- Re: [PATCH] gnu: whois: Move mkpasswd to its own output., ng0, 2017/01/20
- Re: [PATCH] gnu: whois: Move mkpasswd to its own output., Ricardo Wurmus, 2017/01/20