On Mar 3, 2013, at 11:10 53, Jay Ashworth wrote:

> They test, and if necessary, fix, your set of installed dependencies,
> since the packager who sets them up should know what that is by the time
> he or she would be ready to create a package.  They're sort of a build-from-
> source version of interpackage dependencies.  IIRC, RT predates repo-based
> packaging.

Ok, I'm just a bit slow I guess.  "Testing" a dependency I get -- "do we have 
it?, is it the correct version?"  (although methinks that this is the proper 
domain of the configure script).  But "fixing" -- what exactly is this target 
expected to do?  Is this something like Gentoo e-merge -- go fetch all the 
sources automatically and build them?

Cheers!


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