Matt Gushee scripsit: > Also, in my experience with various Linux tribes, there is a general > expectation that binary packages should depend only on other binary > packages. Indeed, there is a potential security issue in that (at > least in principle) official binary packages are tested and > security-audited by the dev team of any given distribution, so > allowing a package to install other software outside the > distribution's procedures would be frowned upon if not prohibited in > most distributions.
Sure. But in that case it is the business of the OS-specific packager to ensure the appropriate dependencies are provided in an OS-specific manager. Chicken by itself has no way to specify, except in prose, what the non-Chicken dependencies of any given egg are, because there are no universal names for these dependencies. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan [email protected] Sound change operates regularly to produce irregularities; analogy operates irregularly to produce regularities. --E.H. Sturtevant, ca. 1945, probably at Yale _______________________________________________ Chicken-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users
