Hi all,

On Mon, 2026-02-16 at 22:33 +0100, Michael J Gruber wrote:
> Peter Oliver venit, vidit, dixit 2026-02-16 16:44:13:
> > As I understand it, Fedora traditionally packaged and enabled a
> > lesspipe.sh written by ourselves, in the less package.

Exactly. And as we are an EL9/EL10 shop, we still use this version.

> > In Fedora 43, we switched to using a lesspipe.sh taken from
> > lesspipe.org (the exact same one that the package review under
> > discussion is for), still in the less package.
> > 
> > Apologies if this is already obvious to everyone in the thread, but
> > it confused me for a moment, so I thought it was worth spelling
> > out.

Yes, this was complete new information for me, thanks for that!

> That's a very good point, and you're the first one to answer my question
> in that respect. If the new package really uses the same source, then
> why do we need it at all? Maybe because not all Fedoras (and RHELs) use
> that version of the less package?

Yes. From the discussion I learned, it is most likely best to build my
proposed lesspipe package for EPEL 8-10 only and also drop the
/etc/profile.d/ stuff from the package.



Cheers,
Andreas
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