Danek Duvall <danek.duvall at sun.com> writes: > On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 05:40:13PM -0700, Mike Kupfer wrote: > >> I think for build machines we've just been telling people to install a >> particular metacluster, one that presumably provides all the things >> that SUNWonbld depends on. But in the new IPS world package >> dependencies will be important. >> >> I would talk to the IPS team before spending much time on manually >> adding dependencies--I believe they have some tools that they are >> using to help determine dependencies. > > We discover any ELF dependencies that binaries might have, but if there are > other dependencies -- like executables used by shell scripts and so on -- > we don't find those, and we probably won't. Unless there's an unusual > dependency that isn't just covered by the core solaris packages, just leave > it alone.
Right, even if I were going to do it, it would be very, very low priority. But I was mostly wondering whether there would good reasons not to, even then. -- Rich
