On Wed, Jul 12, 2000 at 06:52:57PM -0500, Chad W. Skinner wrote:
> I have experienced the same problems, but would also hate to see every
> package include all of the programs upon which it depends. The issue I see
> is simply the package, in many cases, could be excessively large.
[...]
Agreed, though if something like this was implemented, it would
hopefully be more like *BSDs "pkg_add", i.e. if a dependency is missing,
the necessary libraries/programs are downloaded automatically.
Problem I see with this is that such a mechanism can only work reliably
in a "controlled" environment like e.g. the *BSD ports trees. After all,
if something is missing, we don't want the packager to go out and just
randomly find the next best library, but rather one which is guaranteed
to work on our system.
My EUR0.02,
Thomas
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