Bug 2445448

Summary: Consider using separate lesspipe package
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Andreas Haupt <andreas.haupt>
Component: lessAssignee: Michal Hlavinka <mhlavink>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: rawhideCC: fjanus, hhorak, kasal, mavit, mhlavink, praiskup
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Description Andreas Haupt 2026-03-07 08:26:33 UTC 
Dear less packagers,

I'm currently trying to package Wolfgang Friebel's lesspipe package and bringing it into Fedora + EPEL. See this review:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2417806

and copr repo:

https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/ahaupt/lesspipe/

I was made aware, you already want to directly include this lesspipe package:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2308285

Some reviewers of #2417806 claimed, keeping less + lesspipe separate would be a better approach. Please consider using (and maybe sponsor) the separate lesspipe package I'm trying to bring into Fedora.

Thanks,
Andreas

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Michal Hlavinka 2026-03-10 21:42:02 UTC 
Hi, yes, less has always had a lesspipe script and that's same as what Debian does, because without lesspipe its usage is very limited and it won't be able to open even gziped plain text files or man pages. That's why lesspipe is inseparable part of less, not just optional addon. lesspipe is a small script, so it's not needed to be excluded for saving space on some disk image. It does not pull big dependencies that would affect image size either. So, in summary I do not plan to separate lesspipe from less package.