Re: Updated setup.ini with descriptions, categories, and dependencies

[egor duda]

Hi!

Tuesday, 28 August, 2001 Corinna Vinschen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

CV> On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 04:06:49PM +0400, egor duda wrote:
>> Tuesday, 28 August, 2001 Corinna Vinschen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> >> @ automake
>> >> sdesc: "A GNU tool for automatically creating Makefiles"
>> 
>> CV> sdesc: "A tool for automatically generating GNU style Makefile.in's"
>> 
>> >> category: Development/Tools
>> >> requires: ash perl
>> 
>> CV> requires: ash cygwin perl
>> 
>> why? automake doesn't contain any binaries. it's even made as "noarch"
>> rpm in linux distros, iirc. i suppose we shouldn't include "recursive
>> dependencies" into the list, should we?

CV> What exactly is `recursive' in the above list of required packages?

by "recursive" i mean "dependencies for dependencies". cygwin _is_
required to run perl and ash, but automake itself is
"architecture-independent" package and will run on any platform, as
long as perl and /bin/sh are installed and can be run.

Egor.            mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 5165414 FidoNet 2:5020/496.19