Re: [PATCH] Choose logos package

[David Cantrell <dcantrell redhat com>]

On Aug 27, 2008, at 4:18 PM, John Summerfield wrote:

> Jeremy Katz wrote:
>
> > Seems reasonable, although the need for more options being passed to
> > buildinstall etc is kind of painful.  But c'est la vie.
>
> rpm and mkisofs both have the ability to read a configuration file  
> to ascertain local preferences, why not buildinstall?
>
> Presumably, CentOS, Scientific Linux, Fedora and Red Hat don't  
> change their logos all that often. Surely reading a configuration  
> file to get this information is way simpler for the user than having  
> to remember myriad commandline switches! I've been known to write a  
> script just to customise a complex commandline (rsync is another  
> with an overly complicated commandline).


You think rsync is difficult?  Try mkisofs, tar, cpio, or iptables.

I could go on, but that might derail the thread.

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David Cantrell <dcantrell redhat com>
Red Hat / Honolulu, HI