When I said "no complaint about there not being a [EMAIL PROTECTED]", I mean no
complaint about there not being a [EMAIL PROTECTED] installed, not in the repository.
Sorry if this was confusing.
I still do not understand the intended semantics of the incorporate
dependency action, and now it's not clear to me what the semantics of
the optional dependency is either. Is a more complete definition for
the depend action written up somewhere (other than what is in
pkgs-and-groups.txt)?
Regarding the optional dependency, if I have:
a depends on [EMAIL PROTECTED] (optional)
and [EMAIL PROTECTED] is installed, what should happen when I try to install a?
Automatic update to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Install failure?
Neither of these are happening now. Rather, a just gets installed
without doing anything to b.
Is this a bug?
Tom
Bart Smaalders wrote:
Tom Mueller wrote:
I tried adding the following:
pkg:/[EMAIL PROTECTED] is a simple package with an optional dependency:
depend fmri=pkg:/[EMAIL PROTECTED] type=optional
(Note that there is no [EMAIL PROTECTED] in the repository.)
Then I tried both "pkg image-update" and "pkg install [EMAIL PROTECTED]" and both
succeeded with no complaint about there not being a [EMAIL PROTECTED] there.
I don't see any open issues on the incorporate behavior - should I
create one?
An optional dependency is just that. Above, it has the semantic that
should a version of "b" be installed, that it must be at least version 2.
To require all optional dependencies to exist in the repo would prevent
cross-repo dependencies and make publishing circular dependencies
somewhat problematic.
-= Bart
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