On Tue, 14 Jan 2025 at 09:38, Sérgio Basto <ser...@serjux.com> wrote:
> Hi, > > I adopt bc and SFML [3] to avoid one mass removing of packages some > time ago , these two packages have some dependencies , but I'm not very > familiar with them > > Recently an user , ask me to consider "Consider switching gnub-bc to > howard-bc" [1] and [2] and change from gcc to clang . > > Anyone can me advice what to do ? I don't have much time and I'd like > focus on other packages > > Moving from one bc to another isn't as easy as the requester may think. There are a lot of sysadmin scripts which use bc in all kinds of places and if they are using the math additions, it can break anything from a school computer accounting system (*cough*) to other things. I would say that the person should look at packaging up the other bc as an alternative but stay with what is there for basic installs. [And I can be added as a comaintainer if that would help you.] > Best regards, > > > [1] > https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/bc/pull-request/6 > > [2] > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2308672 > > [3] > https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/SFML > -- > Sérgio M. B. > -- > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > Do not reply to spam, report it: > https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue > -- Stephen Smoogen, Red Hat Automotive Let us be kind to one another, for most of us are fighting a hard battle. -- Ian MacClaren
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