2006/5/18, Lucas C. Villa Real <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
On 5/18/06, Laurent Pelecq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The problem if the dependencies are reduced to a minimum is that a user
> may not be aware that there are optional dependencies available. Typically
> for VLC, I guess that most users would like it to support as many format
> as possible while few users would like to restrict the supported format to
> a specific list. With optional dependencies, the dialog would be:
>
> Mandatory dependency libpng is not installed: [i]install/[s]kip ?
> Optional dependency AAlib is not installed: [i]install/[s]kip ?
>
> And when optional dependencies are selected, the recipe takes care of
> enabling it if necessary.
Right. So, can we use the current Dependencies script to generate the
optional dependency list? Seems sane to me.
I like this. And then if there are configure options for optional
dependencies these would be activated if the user chooses to install
the corresponding program.
--
/Jonas
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