On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 2:56 PM, Zygmunt Krynicki <
zygmunt.kryni...@linaro.org> wrote:

> I was writing it this morning. It actually pulls all of the branches that
> compose lava and gives you an ability to install them in a managed
> virtualenv instance.
>
> Great!


>
>  It seems to me,
>> that on some things, this could be overkill, or not really make it that
>> much
>> simpler.  For instance... in the case of lava-test you may want to also
>> install python-apt, but there are other things like usbutils.  In the case
>> of the dispatcher, it can also run completely from the source branch.
>>
>
> So there are three possible cases:
>
> 1) A component has no dependencies and runs from tree (awesome!)
> 2) A component depends on something we make
> 3) A component depends on something others make
>
> But what about where other non-python packages need to be installed for it
to work properly? That was the main thing I was trying to sort out?  Does
the recipe have a rule to do this?  In the case where post-install
configuration is needed, does it point the user to instructions for how to
do that?

Thanks,
Paul Larson
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