2008/6/3 Nicolas Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 12:42:47AM +0530, Venky wrote: >> > > However, one problem with this is that it creates a situation where >> > > you are publishing a package that depends on a file in a package that >> > > hasn't been published yet. >> > >> > fail. >> >> Not really. If I am hosting a repository which provides the "mutt" >> package, I would rather not be forced to host "sendmail" or >> "postfix" also. > > We're talking about when the file dependency is resolved to a package > dependency, which would at package publication time. See the rest of > the thread.
It does bring up a good point about file dependencies though. Namely that it would rely on dependent packages already being in the repository, which would create additional work on the part of the person publishing the packages. -- Shawn Walker _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
