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On Sunday 11 January 2004 14:24, Paul de Vrieze wrote: |
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> On Sunday 11 January 2004 06:01, Spider wrote: |
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> > Separating UDEPEND only to get DEPEND more finegrained isn't a good |
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> > thing though. I really don't see the need for an extra thing just to |
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> > unpack but not to compile. |
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> I agree with Spider here, the only thing that I see as missing in the |
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> dependency scheme is a good way to specify optional runtime packages. |
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> (Packages that will be used if present, but that are not needed at compile |
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> time or installation time) |
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Not portage's job, imho. If you want the user to know about optional deps, |
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just add an einfo in pkg_postinst. |
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Tal |
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