From: Junio C Hamano Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 07:45:01 GMT Subject: Re: "Read my lips: no more merges" - aka Linux 2.6.14-rc1 Message-ID: <7v7jdibwqq.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> In-Reply-To: <43290486.5020301@zytor.com> "H. Peter Anvin" writes: > 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.