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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: auto-detection of unpack dependencies
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:26:02
Message-Id: 20080715202553.00158ee2@snowcone
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: auto-detection of unpack dependencies by Donnie Berkholz
1 On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:23:08 -0700
2 Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@g.o> wrote:
3 > Could someone explain why manually doing work is better than
4 > automatically detecting the deps? This sounds like an argument
5 > against automation, and I'm not following it.
6
7 Sometimes the magic will be wrong. For example, packages that have
8 a .zip file in SRC_URI but that don't unpack that file (say, if they
9 install it into sharedir as-is instead) don't need a dep upon unzip.
10
11 --
12 Ciaran McCreesh

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: auto-detection of unpack dependencies Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: auto-detection of unpack dependencies Richard Freeman <rich@××××××××××××××.net>