From: David Kågedal <davidk@lysator.liu.se>
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 08:39:08 GMT
Subject: Re: "Read my lips: no more merges" - aka Linux 2.6.14-rc1
Message-ID: <u5tvf12sp1v.fsf@lysator.liu.se>
In-Reply-To: <7v7jdibwqq.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> writes:

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

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.

-- 
David Kågedal