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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@...>
Subject: Re: Re: RFC: auto-detection of unpack dependencies
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 20:25:53 +0100
On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:23:08 -0700
Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@g.o> wrote:
> Could someone explain why manually doing work is better than 
> automatically detecting the deps? This sounds like an argument
> against automation, and I'm not following it.

Sometimes the magic will be wrong. For example, packages that have
a .zip file in SRC_URI but that don't unpack that file (say, if they
install it into sharedir as-is instead) don't need a dep upon unzip.

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh
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