On Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 03:41:01PM -0700, Bernard Li wrote: > Hi all: >
> In discussion with Marcus Rueckert (SUSE Linux packager), he suggested > a solution which the subversion folks are doing in their latest 1.4.0 > RC - to ship dependencies in a separate tarball. This way, for Linux > packagers, we only need the "core" tarball and will not include the > dependencies, then we can simply link against whatever the distro > provides. Sounds excellent. > I think this is a good solution and will eliminate headaches for > package maintainers of the various distroes. Indeed, it'll vastly reduce the source package size and reduce the amount on autoconf diving I have to do for new releases :). Stu -- >From the prompt of Stu Teasdale The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.
