[gobolinux-devel] Dependencies rework

[Lucas C. Villa Real]

On 8/25/07, Jonas Karlsson <jonka750 at student.liu.se> wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Aug 2007 03:43:44 +0200, Michael Homer <gobo-users-dufus at wotfun.com> wrote:
>
> > On 8/25/07, Jonas Karlsson <jonka750 at student.liu.se> wrote:
> >> Having submitted several binary packages and had some chats on IRC with users
> >> trying to install the same packages I came to the conclusion that we need to
> >> rework the dependency scheme a lot.
> >>
> >> First I'd like to change dependencies to be none recursive.
> > I agree. It's not really necessary (now), and it'd be clearer if they
> > weren't all listed.
>
> Ok. I've thought about it and I can't see nothing against this and even if there
> were, I think the pros will weight out the cons, also those that have commented
> on this was positive, so I commited the changes. As in my commit message, for
> example toolkits, e.g. GTK+, can be compiled agains any X server and applications
> using that toolkit doesn't have to know. CheckDependencies takes care of the
> recursion.
>
> I still want comments and ideas on the new scheme. :)

Just to make it official, as we've already talked about this before:
yes, this seems to be a sane approach to handle dependencies.
BuildDependencies, however, should be left untouched, as it's a good
source for hints when something goes wrong.

-- 
Lucas
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