On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 06:41:13PM +0200, Ralf Treinen wrote: > In fact I am a bit surprised that packages actually build-depend > on ocaml-tools. I had expected that people install the package just > to have the latest version of ocamlmakefile around, and then copy the > file into their project when they start a new one (as one does it > for instance with config.sub and config.guess). > > % grep-dctrl -s Package -F Build-Depends ocaml-tools > /var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.fr.debian.org_debian_dists_sid_main_source_Sources > Package: approx > Package: missinglib > Package: ocaml-sha > Package: ocaml-sqlite > Package: pycaml > Package: regexp-pp > Package: syslog-ocaml > > I guess these build-dependencies are due to ocamlmakefile.
Well, I'm responsible for 3 of these :-), and I have an aversion to copying anything when it can be installed once in /usr/share. A holdover attitude from the days of small hard disks, I suppose. -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
