Re: [Fink-devel] Re: Artificial dependencies in the binarydistribution

2003-01-12 Thread Michel Schinz
"David R. Morrison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Just to clarify the situation a bit more: > > If the software you are packaging makes use of the Fink package foo > whenever foo is present, and if you have no way to disable it from making > use of foo, then you must list foo as a dependency. Yes

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: Artificial dependencies in the binarydistribution

2003-01-12 Thread Michel Schinz
Ben Hines <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > And additionally, this isnt just an arbitrary goal, your package will > break for source users too: > > 1. User installs dlcompat. > 2. User installs (from source) your package, which finds and uses > dlcompat > 3. User removes dlcompat (this works be

[Fink-devel] Re: Artificial dependencies in the binarydistribution

2003-01-12 Thread Max Horn
At 19:02 Uhr +0100 12.01.2003, Michel Schinz wrote: Ben Hines <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] Well, the real problem is your fault, you missed a dependency when making the package, and we missed it when verifying. :) Well, I do not view it that way, of course :-). Scsh does *not* depend