Dan Nicholson wrote: > On 2/9/07, Alexander E. Patrakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Since debugging utilities are not needed for a regular user (i.e., not a >> developer) and only slow the application down (or take extra build time), I >> propose to completely stop mentioning them as dependencies, unless they are >> used only during a testsuite (and this fact should be documented). > > I wouldn't want to completely drop them, but maybe they can be split > them out the way we usually do with documenation depenencies. I.e., > > Optional Dependencies > ... > > Optional Dependencies for building the documenation > ... > > Optional Dependencies for running the testsuite > Valgrind, Check > > I wouldn't have any problem with that.
The issue is that sometimes Electric Fence is used not for testsuite, but for some other purpose (e.g.: in order to allow the person who develops the application to do better debugging). I wouldn't like it if one puts debuggers under under just "Optional Dependencies", as opposed to "Optional Dependencies for ...". -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
