On 3/22/2011 5:19 PM, Dave Korn wrote: > Guess I forgot to actually ask: Do we prefer the situation where all users > of curr: packages get a few extra libs that they don't need, or would we > prefer not to make them download extra libs and rely on users of test: > packages to manually download anything they find themselves missing? On the > whole I guess loading a few extra libs on "normal" users is probably not a > serious burden but wondered if others had thought about it.
I usually go ahead and add the new libs to the global requires. This is similar to the situation when a dependent library gets version bumped; I'll typically include BOTH the libs in my app's requires spec: requires: libncurses7 libncurses8 -- Chuck
