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Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2011 19:47:37 +0300 From: Shlomi Fish <[email protected]> To: Mageia development mailing-list <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Mageia-dev] The Hydra Nature of the horde-* packages Hi Thomas, On Sat, 27 Aug 2011 09:31:45 -0700 Thomas Spuhler <[email protected]> wrote: > On Saturday, August 27, 2011 09:17:56 am Shlomi Fish wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I just rebuilt a few horde-* packages for which there were missing > > dependencies in http://pkgsubmit.mageia.org/data/missing-deps.i586.txt , > > but now there are more that are not there: > > > > horde-compress > > horde-datatree > > horde-history > > horde-secret > > horde-text-filter > > horde-token > > > > This reminds me of the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lernaean_Hydra where if > > you cut one of its heads, then two grow instead. > > > > How can we resolve all the horde dependencies for good? Why do they > > reappear? What is the underlying problem? > > > > I'm CCing it to mageia-sysadm because it may be a Sys admin problem. > > > > Regards, > > > > Shlomi Fish > > These will be removed when the whole horde tree is done. The new names are:] > > php-pear-Horde..... > > I am working on them, but there are a lot of deps to be built. > I don't understand exactly how these things are related? Why have we been having lots of broken horde-* dependencies for a long while? Why do horde-* packages disappear? Can we discuss this on IRC? I am "rindolf" there. Regards, Shlomi Fish -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Original Riddles - http://www.shlomifish.org/puzzles/ Chuck Norris doesn’t make mistakes. (Su‐Shee) He corrects God. (Shlomi Fish) Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ First stop for Perl beginners - http://perl-begin.org/ NASA Uses COBOL. Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply .
