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gapan
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Re: package check

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Because there are cases where these are actually the correct ownerships.
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Re: package check

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gapan wrote:Because there are cases where these are actually the correct ownerships.
That's why it should ask first. I know these rare cases ;)
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Good idea thenktor !
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Re: package check

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I don't want buildscripts to become interactive. It's annoying when you're off for half an hour and it stops already after 10 minutes with a prompt, just to go on another 10 min afterwards. :)

It would be OK for me to have aggressive corrections on per default and to have an option to disable them. But there's a point where SLKBUILDs take away too much control from the packager and becomes bloated. So I'm a bit uncertain if we should at all change this behaviour.
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Re: package check

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I believe that we should not change that. Too much automation is bad. Prompts are a bad idea in my opinion. What if a package has hundreds of those files? Will you answer as many prompts? If the makefiles are bad and install files with wrong ownerships, then you should either: 1) correct the makefiles (and probably alert their developer) and/or 2) fix the ownerships in build().
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OK, i'm convinced. Don't change slkbuild for this.
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