On Fri, 10 Jul 2015 15:33:11 -0400 Quint Guvernator <quint@guvernator.net> wrote:
Karol,
On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 3:23 PM, <notify@aur.archlinux.org> wrote:
karol_007 [1] filed a deletion request for gg [2]: The PKGBUILD is longer that the script it packages Great. Why is this a problem?
I put it `gg` on the AUR to make sure I was familiar with the new aur4 process. I find `gg` useful, and I hope other Arch users will too.
$ wc -c PKGBUILD gg msg.txt 428 PKGBUILD 255 gg 607 msg.txt
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Cheers, Quint As a script, this makes little sense. All you're really doing is shortening a single command, which is much better done with an alias. You shouldn't even need the 'sudo' if this is local.
I agree that it really shouldn't be in the AUR. I agree, that it is a bad script, should not contain sudo and could be solved otherwise. What I don't agree with is this totally random way of deciding what's supposed to be okay and what not. I cannot find rules about what's okay. The same type of behavior lead to the removal of
Am 11.07.2015 um 14:36 schrieb Doug Newgard: ddate from util-linux, because of the possible implications for some people with an arbitrary set of "traditional moral values"[1]. Instead of simply removing it from the AUR, we should file a bug report to solve the sudo problem (polkit integration perhaps?), this should also generate enough code to solve the "PKGBUILD longer than script" problem, a problem that might also happen with very dense Perl regex. Maybe adding the license text to the script might satisfy the wc -l in-depth analysis. [1]https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=149321