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On Thursday, August 28, 2003, at 10:07 AM, Peter O'Gorman wrote:
On Thursday, August 28, 2003, at 10:31 PM, Benjamin Reed wrote:
Peter O'Gorman wrote:I don't see the need for this to be in a Recommends field, would it not be better in a Desc* type field, or simply as a #comment in the .info file?
It's not a matter of need, but it does make sense to me. If I want to develop with kdelibs, I want to know that I need to have all those other -dev packages installed too.
When we implement Recommends/Suggests in the future, fink can auto-install them so you're ready to do your building.
In the future we will all be dead :)
Aside from the fact that nobody is working on implementing this at them moment, there is Dave's point about upping the revision numbers. However, as long as it will still allow -dev packages to be replaced by others when building something, there is no objection from me.
A policy where this should be added to Recommends or Suggests by the maintainer when packages are updated to a new revision/version would probably get nowhere though, so I guess the decision on where it goes (comment, Recommends, Suggests, Desc*) is up to Dave.
What about fixing the fink dep engine, so that BuildDependsOnly packages may depend on other BuildDependsOnly, and then a kde packahe could BuildDepend on kdelibs3-dev and a few other -dev packages it needs, and fink will make sure everything needed is there; fink would need to recursively go through the depends...
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