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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlReceived on Thu Sep 15 18:42:37 2005
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