Garrett D'Amore wrote:
> I'm looking at some of the packages in ON, and I don't see how
> dependencies are properly tracked.
>
> Specifically, the audio driver packages need to depend on
> driver-audio,  the driver-network-qfe package should have depended on
> driver-network-hme.   There are probably lots of others.

As best as I can tell, driver/audio/* do depend upon driver/audio.
Also, driver/network/qfe likely does depend upon driver/network/hme, but
I can't easily check that.

I imagine you're looking at the source manifests, not the resultant
packages?  Many (most) dependencies are automatically calculated as part
of the build.

>
> I'm also thinking about breaking up some of the packages (driver-audio
> needs to be broken up for example, since it has specific chip drivers
> in it with the common framework), but I'm not entirely sure how to go
> about doing that.   Are there any guides which can help me here?
>

I believe some of the pkg(5) folks have grand plans regarding package
refactoring, it would ideally all be somewhat coordinated.  Comay
recently encouraged me to find some place to put a wiki page listing
possible ways to adjust things.  Possibly just to shut me up, though. :)

-- Rich
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