-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Levi Ramsey wrote: > On Wed Jul 30 14:52 +0200, Buchan Milne wrote:
> To some extent, I'm not keen on the idea of automatic dependencies; > afaik, debian (to pick the most prominent distribution) seems to get by > fine on about 3 million platforms without an auto-deps system (the fact > that no package gets uploaded until it builds on all platforms may have > something to do with that...), and I think that making it easier for > packagers to offload the responsibility to create ideal dependencies to > something/someone else is a dangerous idea. But that's just my $0.02. > So you would: a) be willing to tell newbies on the lists: - -install libart_lgpl-devel (not required by kdelibs-devel in 9.1), so the sample app in kdevelop will compile - -install Xfree86-devel (not required by libqt3 in 9.1) too - -install libarts-devel also - -oh yes, there's also XXX-devel which is required by XFree86-devel (like libxpm-devel or something) b)be willing to fix all the missing -devel requires in all the packages? It's not feasible to get all of the devel requires correct manually, and how many of the problems we have now are due to the devel dependencies? I would guess it's something like this: - - >50% perl deps that don't exist - - >30% epoch problems - - >15% packages which need rebuilding against a new library (which is something we can't drop unless you want people to have broken software) - - <5% -devel deps But, since my mirror is behind, I could be wrong ... Regards, Buchan - -- |--------------Another happy Mandrake Club member--------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x202 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE/J/V0rJK6UGDSBKcRArv+AJ9hdaZryDjM3znsJa2yl//hbg6SKwCgxJo8 7hiHQOUIfTvlKwIRwvvYsck= =UCmV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ****************************************************************** Please click on http://www.cae.co.za/disclaimer.htm to read our e-mail disclaimer or send an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a copy. ******************************************************************
