I'm jumping into this thread a bit late, since I was out of town for a few days.
I hope that everyone is bearing in mind a crucial fact of life: whatever we do in terms of dependencies has to be translated (at the end of the day) into dependencies that the Debian tools (dpkg and apt-get) can handle. Moreover, we historically have a goal at fink of making sure that any fink package compiles the same way on two different systems. As far as I know, the Debian tools can't handle conditional dependencies directly. This suggests that whenever a package is compiled, we'll have to write an unconditional set of (runtime) dependencies for that package. If the runtime dependencies might be different depending on, I suppose, different things being installed when you start, then we have to give the whole matter some very careful thought. Perhaps the name, from dpkg's point of view, needs to be lengthened to include variant information? Could this be done automatically? Anyway, I'll now read through to the end of the thread... Am sending this message as I try to catch up. -- Dave ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. Build and deploy apps & Web services for Linux with a free DVD software kit from IBM. Click Now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1356&alloc_id=3438&op=click _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
