[gobolinux-devel] Re: Dependencies on meta-recipes

[Lucas C. Villa Real]

On 8/1/06, Hisham Muhammad <hisham.hm at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I like the flag approach. Something very clear like,
> > >
> > > part_of_meta_only=yes
> > >
> > > I can add that now (my lab is back). RecipeLint can even check and
> > > flag an ERROR if a Recipe with part_of_meta_only set contains a
> > > Dependencies file.

Cool.

> > If a recipe is to be included only in a meta recipe it
> > should be stored in a separate directory at the server (as suggested)
> > or the name of the recipe should say so, i.e.
> > xfce-mcs-manager-meta--4.3.90.2--recipe.tar.bz2 (only as part of xfce
> > meta), so it isn't Compiled separatly by mistake.
>
> I like your idea of specifying in the recipe name. It removes the need
> for the parent_recipe var I was unhappy with. I will rethink the
> proposed implementation I posted.

Remembering that we can have the bad luck of finding a package where
its name really ends with -meta...

-- 
Lucas
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