On 2012-01-15 20:29, Julien Puydt wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> after looking at the spkg/standard/deps file (in both 4.8.alpha6 and
> 5.0.beta1), I was wondering why patch isn't in $(BASE).
> 
> One reason would be that not everything depends on it, and so adding a
> more explicit dependency is a good idea. But then, why would $(BASE)
> exist anyway?

There are "base" packages, stored in spkg/base and "standard" packages,
stored in spkg/standard.  $(BASE) corresponds to the base packages. Base
packages are the absolute minimum required to run sage-spkg.  Base
packages don't use sage-spkg, they use custom install scripts.  I think
it would be good to reduce the number of packages in spkg/base, possibly
to zero.  It should be possible (but non-trivial concerning upgrades) to
make bzip2 a standard package.

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