On 2/2/07, TheOldFellow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I know this is none of my business, but to my mind there is a great deal > of difference between a build-time dependency and a run-time one. > > An optional run-time dependency IS part of the configuration: > WUIP (Will Use If Present) vs WRINP (Won't Run If Not Present). > > Contrasted with: MBPTB (Must Be Present To Build), and perhaps: MBPTBOPX > (Must Be Present To Build Optional Part X), or even: CBRAB (Can Be > Removed After Building). > > But all this information is interesting, and leads to cleaner systems > once you understand it all. But maybe it's all to difficult (IATD) > especially when you have a release coming up... :-)
A lot of good points there. Unfortunately, I think you really need to have a dedicated package manager to have such a flexible setup. I think it would turn into a huge maintenance and readability nightmare if we tried to put the same kind of info into the book. I'd be interested to hear how you handle it, though. -- Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
