On 12/27/05, Bernd Kuemmerlen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I am warming up an old thread since one of my packages which I am > currently updating does exactly this: > > > Dave Vasilevsky Sun, 31 Jul 2005 04:28:33 -0700 > > > > On Jul 30, 2005, at 3:24 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote: > >> IMO we shouldn't have 'bar' provide 'foo' as well as have a > >> separate 'foo' package. This is a continual source of chaos. > > > > There are many many packages right now that do this. Major reasons > > are: variants/ssl, old packages that used to be separate but are now > > integrated into another package, system-* packages that include the > > functionality of real packages. > > Can anybody enlighten me on > - why this is a bad idea? > - how this should be handled? > (my package is dcmtk/dcmtk-ssl) > > Thanks for your help > Yours > Bernd > -- > "The first discovery I'd like to present here is an algorithm for lazy > evaluation of research papers. Just write whatever you want and don't > cite any previous work, and indignant readers will send you references > to all the papers you should have cited." -- Paul Graham > >
Functionally it may not be as bad as I thought. I don't think any change on your part is necessary. It's a bit confusing to users, though--if "foo" is a real package but is also provided by "foo-bar", then "foo" will have a version number in "fink list", unlike all other Provided packages. This is apparently not the case in CVS versions of fink (the future 0.25.x), though. The other potential problem (which hasn't ocurred as far as I know) is that there is the potential that some package may really need to depend on "foo" but not on any of the other packages that provide it. -- Alexander K. Hansen Fink Documenter [Day Job] Levitated Dipole Experiment http://psfcwww2.psfc.mit.edu/ldx/ ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idv37&alloc_id865&op=click _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
