Excerpts from Philip Brown's message of Tue Dec 21 12:12:08 -0500 2010: > first of all, I'm curious what you meant by "list". were you > speaking webpage, or actual depend file?
Pretty sure we're all meaning depend file here. > secondly... if we have a dependancy on a semi-'rare' sun > package... we can and SHOULD put in SUNW packages as a dependancy. > We dont usually bother having SUNWxxx in depend, because they are > probably installed anyway. I think this makes sense. It would be better to fail at install time and have the admin add the semi-'rare' package than mysteriously fail at runtime. The runtime failure may not always have a readily apparent reason, but the install-time failure will make it crystal clear. Thanks -Ben -- Ben Walton Systems Programmer - CHASS University of Toronto C:416.407.5610 | W:416.978.4302 _______________________________________________ maintainers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/maintainers .:: This mailing list's archive is public. ::.
