Re: "Read my lips: no more merges" - aka Linux 2.6.14-rc1

Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] writes:

"H. Peter Anvin" [off-list ref] writes:

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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.

On my Debian system, there is a "sensible-pager" which does a
${PAGER:-pager}, and "pager" which is a symlink to an installed pager
(using the 'alternatives' system).  So a Debian package should
probably use one of those.

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David Kågedal