On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 05:46:50PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 05:32:51PM +0100, Sven wrote: > > But imagine i did build a bytecode executable on machine X, and just copied > > the bytecode executable to machine Y, which does not have the developper libs > > installed, it will not run. > > > > Also imagine i did get a ocaml bytecode executable from somewhere not debian, > > and want to test it. > <snip> > > What do you think about this argument ? > > These problem fits our metapackages issues only if you think that in > such a case, a user try to solve the problem installing a full ocaml > packages bundle. > > When you install a non debian software that fails loading a library, are > you going to install all lib* packages? Surely not, you are going to > find which debian packages contains the library you need. > > Surely, while ocaml distribution is not huge, the "install all" solution > works for ocaml stuff, but is not an enduring solution even if your > "install all" idea is restricted to only the runtimes. In the future we > hope, we can have a lot of packages containing ocaml runtimes ...
Ok, lets go with your solution then ... BTW, but it would make more sense to name the package ocaml-dev-lib or something such also, ... well, maybe ocaml-dev-kit, or somthing such, or maybe even ocaml-cdk :))) Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
