On Jul 10, 2012 7:00 AM, "David Spencer" <baildon.resea...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > For the record I'm personally not 100% hostile to the idea. I could > live with a formal mechanism for declaring mandatory direct > dependencies, but I wouldn't stay up late myself to make it happen. > If it ever did happen, I'd hope that both build-time and run-time > dependencies should be included with no distinction. The end users > would be freaked out if packages failed to run despite meeting what > they would see as formally documented deps. > > It's reassuring that nobody is advocating version dependency, you know > the sort of thing: gnome-stuff >= 2.34.56. You're not all completely > mad and I respect you for that :D
But, that's exactly the problem. Sometimes, there is a minimum necessary version required to build a package. Other times, there is a maximum required (I'm thinking of Python in particular, but I know there are other, non-official packages that have had this problem.) In theory, the current admin system in use at SBo should keep this from being a problem. In practice, maybe not. But then, we can't really just include version information, because that's a whole nother ball of wax. What's newer, 1.54 or r1076? > > > "This requires zope.component and gaphas " > > Just imagine the chaos for automatic parsing if there was a package > named 'and' :-) > > -D. And what if more than one package fits the bill? The wxWidgets packages come to mind. I believe at one point, there were three different packages, any of which would satisfy that one dependency, and any of which required a fairly large source download and a fairly lengthy compile. You definitely didn't want to build all three! > _______________________________________________ > SlackBuilds-users mailing list > SlackBuilds-users@slackbuilds.org > http://lists.slackbuilds.org/mailman/listinfo/slackbuilds-users > Archives - http://lists.slackbuilds.org/pipermail/slackbuilds-users/ > FAQ - http://slackbuilds.org/faq/ >
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