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

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Sep 15, 2005, 07:45 UTC
Message-ID: <7v7jdibwqq.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <43290486.5020301@zytor.com>

"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> writes:

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> Linus Torvalds wrote:
>> On Wed, 14 Sep 2005, Alejandro Bonilla Beeche wrote:
>>
>>>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.