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William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: |
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> On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 21:04 -0500, Joshua Nichols wrote: |
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>> I don't think either of these are particular ideal. I think it would |
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>> slightly better to depend on the things that the libraries needed. |
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> Well I am not sure that would work or be ideal. A few reasons. One if |
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> someone was on a server and so not using alsa, extra stuff is pulled in. |
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> Now one could say big deal. |
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> However two, if we installed all deps by default that would also include |
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> X. Which is a very large app, many deps, takes forever to compile even |
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> on fast hardware. |
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> Now some time back when I was using JGenerator (a servlet) via Tomcat it |
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> had deps on X. I can't recall what happened, I do not believe it was |
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> anything catatstrophic. At the same time it was not the greatest either, |
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> logs were created and JGenerator would not work till I installed X. |
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> Granted both these scenarios are more server related than desktop. |
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> However it's cases where the extra stuff would not be wanted across the |
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> board. Much less have to package.provide stuff etc? |
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> Unfortunately I think use flag is best, and yes it creates broken |
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> symbols and etc for missing stuff. Not sure what to say, but it's murky |
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> waters, and I am not sure there is any elegant, or ideal way to go about |
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> it? Will keep the thinking cap on about it though. |
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For now, I think I agree that the use flag just for dependencies is the |
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best route to take. We currently do this to an extent, but just need to |
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make sure it is applied to all the appropriate VMs |
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- Josh |
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