[Mageia-dev] Minimal patching vs. fixing the whole Universe

[Michael Scherer]

Le mercredi 22 juin 2011 à 14:39 -0700, Radu-Cristian FOTESCU a écrit :
> 
> >>  A distro's job is not to judge the work of the _upstream_ developers as 
> > long as this is not a real bug.
> > 
> > But it's to integrate software, and apply common policy to all of them.
> 
> 
> ok, say a distro has 200 packages that use python, for a total of 20,000 *.py files. 
> now what, the limited resources of a distro should be used to "patch optimally" the first line of all those 20,000 *.py files, just because this would mean to use a common policy?
> _regardless_ of the fact that those files actually run?


Technically, we can use scripts, like we do for stripping the 50 000
binaries that can be found in */bin/ 

Or like we do to have the same compression on the 85000 man pages,
instead of patching every Makefile in order to use xz instead of
nothing, gz, bz2.

And we even manage to have the same C flags for compilation. So
stripping env should be a big issue, if found desirable.

After all, we already detect python to add a dependency on the
interpreter in rpm, so the logic is already present.

-- 
Michael Scherer