[Slackbuilds-users] SlackBuild Ettiquette

Ivan Zaigralin melikamp at melikamp.com
Thu Nov 13 06:25:54 UTC 2014


Indeed. Vanilla is my favorite flavor, and in my case I would revert to
it if only a single user complained. Going back to OP,

> Iv'e determined that for my use I would rarely run without that
> particular option

IMHO (and I speak as someone who doesn't know the first thing about
bulk_extractor) this is not quite enough either.

On 11/12/2014 10:09 PM, Christoph Willing wrote:
> For sure, options need tweaking occasionally; there are often good reasons
> (including public demand) for it. However I'm against changing them just to
> satisfy some personal world view of the maintainer e.g. "users of this package
> shouldn't build in the optional sudo plugin" (a completely contrived example).
> 
> I don't want to name names - the particular issue I'm thinking of was discussed
> briefly on this list already about six months ago and there's little point
> rehashing the same arguments. In all fairness, I should say that the maintainer
> offered to revert to vanilla if enough people wanted; I guess not enough people
> complained.
> 
> chris

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