[pacman-dev] [PATCH] Add AM_MAINTAINER_MODE to configure.ac and disable by default

Jan Alexander Steffens jan.steffens at gmail.com
Mon Feb 9 02:27:24 UTC 2015


On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 2:45 AM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
> Are there objections to applying this patch - at least until a proper
> solution is found?

A few years ago there was a bit of drama in GNOME about projects
disabling maintainer mode. Might be worth reading and looking further.

http://blogs.gnome.org/desrt/2011/09/08/am_maintainer_mode-is-not-cool/

(AM_MAINTAINER_MODE without parameters is equivalent to ([disable]))


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