Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Packaging informatoin, not program behaviour affected by > this. Packaging details are determined by developers, and can be > easily changed. > > Packaging informatoin, not program behaviour affected by > this. Packaging details are determined by developers, and can be > easily changed. > > Packaging informatoin, not program behaviour affected by > this. Packaging details are determined by developers, and can be > easily changed. > > Packaging informatoin, not program behaviour affected by > this. Packaging details are determined by developers, and can be > easily changed. > > Packaging informatoin, not program behaviour affected by > this. Packaging details are determined by developers, and can be > easily changed. > > Packaging informatoin, not program behaviour affected by > this. Packaging details are determined by developers, and can be > easily changed. > > Packaging informatoin, not program behaviour affected by > this. Packaging details are determined by developers, and can be > easily changed.
In certian cultures, including mine, gratutious repitions of ones point is considered childish and rude and something most of us outgrow by age 6. Anyway, you seem to be arguing that policy cannot make mandates that require significant changes to the source or behavior of programs, which is not true at all. Policy requires that packages bt FHS compliant; this often means large changes to the endire organisation of packages, including large source code changes and design changes. (See the space-orbit package for a good example.) Policy asks that window managers support the debian menu system, this has required significant changes in the code of less-capable window managers such as twm. Policy requires that everything in debian use the same backspace/delete keyboard mapping, which requires changes all over the place. Policy requires that programs not depend on environment variables to function, which can easily mean that a program's source code must be changed to make it read a config file instead. These are just a few examples. -- see shy jo
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