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On Sunday 17 December 2006 16:04, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> On Sun, 17 Dec 2006 15:10:57 +0900 Jason Stubbs <jstubbs@g.o> |
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> wrote: |
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> | I've tried to be objective here so if my viewpoint isn't obvious I'll |
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> | state it outright. I think all packages should depend on every |
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> | package that they need to build and/or run. Whether this is done |
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> | explicitly or with meta-packages, I don't really care. The only |
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> | reason for not being explicit with deps is to cater for old sloppy |
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> | versions of portage. Unless there are other reasons not stated here? |
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> If you mandate that, any package using autotools will need around fifty |
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> new entries in DEPEND. |
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There's ways to manage this complexity, such as putting the dependencies into |
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autotools' RDEPEND (if it can be considered correct) or by using |
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meta-packages. However, your point is against requiring that packages _must_ |
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specify all system dependencies. While I personally believe that packages |
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should specify all dependencies, what I'm arguing against is requiring that |
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packages _must not_ specify any system dependencies. |
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