[gobolinux-users] packages not automatically depending on recipe_type?

[Erick Tryzelaar]

Hello,

Looking through Compile, it looks like a package with a recipe_type of, 
say, "scons" doesn't automatically depend on scons  and python 
ultimately being installed. Is there a particular reason why this is the 
case?

Also along the lines of package dependencies, I'm coming from a redhat / 
macports world, and there's some other things that could also be nice, 
but I can't find any reference to in the mailing list. First, I don't 
see support for a separate Build Dependencies (such as needing scons) 
that you don't need if just doing a PackageInstall. Second, I also 
didn't see a way to do things like rpm's Provides and Conflicts. Did I 
miss the discussion? "Conflicts" I think would be pretty simple to 
provide as it would just be the same code as seeing if a dependency is 
already installed, then failing if it is. "Provides" would be much more 
tricky without a database of some sort. But both are really useful in 
long term maintenance and evolution of a package library. Would there 
ever be plans to add something like this?

-e