"H. Peter Anvin" [off-list ref] writes:
Linus Torvalds wrote:
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On Wed, 14 Sep 2005, Alejandro Bonilla Beeche wrote:
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debian:~# cd linux-2.6/
debian:~/linux-2.6# git log
/usr/local/bin/git-log-script: line 4: less: command not found
A very strange Linux installation that doesn't come with "less"...
What a strange box. Anyway, that does point out that maybe the git
RPM spec should have "less" as a dependency.
Generally you want to honour $PAGER if it is defined.
We do, in the form of "something | ${PAGER:-less}".
On Debian, "less" is Priority "standard" and my understanding is
that the only thing we can (and should if I recall correctly)
omit from the dependency list is the packages of Priority
"essential", so technically we are required to list "less" as
our dependency. I do not know about RPM/Fedora.