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Chris Gianelloni wrote: |
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> On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 14:34 +0100, Natanael Copa wrote: |
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>> On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 00:35 +0100, Fabio Erculiani wrote: |
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>>> I offer my help to fix DEPEND/RDEPEND split issues which is causing me |
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>>> a lot of headaches (along with localizations). |
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>>> For reference, please have a look here: http://planet.sabayonlinux.org/?p=105 |
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>>> |
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>> I'm another distro builder that uses the Gentoo framework. I can only |
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>> agree. I had to roll my own binary package format and after a short |
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>> while I had to do the dependencies myself and just ignore RDEPEND since |
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>> it was close to useless. |
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> I'm a distro builder, too, and I haven't been hitting any of these |
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> problems. Would you care to point out the actual problems, or will the |
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> "close to useless" comment be our only indication of the perceived |
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> problems? |
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Regarding the RDPEND's, there is nothing in the framework protecting the |
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RDEPENDS from be wrong. If its wrong, package still compiles and |
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installs and (almost) everyone is happy. It pulls in unnecessary stuff |
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but who cares? Disk space is cheap. |
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So since I build a distro where size does matter (uclibc) I realised |
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that even if I submit bugs for broken RDEPEND, there will never be an |
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end to those bug reports. Looking at this thread, it seems i was right. |
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That doesn't mean i dont submit bugreports. I do and I very often submit |
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a patch. But there is a limit on how much you can fix in upstream before |
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you need to go other ways. (That applies to fixing package splitting |
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upstream as well btw...) |
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-nc |
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