akhiezer wrote: >> Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 12:12:16 -0500 >> From: Bruce Dubbs <[email protected]> >> To: BLFS Development List <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: [blfs-dev] Proposed changes >> > . > . >> >>>> Remove printproto and libXp since they are basically unused. >>> >>> Like Nathan, I thought these were for something in the open jdk >>> area. >> >> I can't find any reference to printproto in any jdk file or log. I >> found one mention of libXp in the INSTALL text file of IcedTea, but I >> don't see where it is ever used. >> > > > blfs74 states quite clearly on libXp page that 'printproto' is a required dep. > (Whether that's really true or not is a different matter: there's quite a lot > of inaccuracies in the deps sections in blfs.) > > blfs74 also states quite clearly on both libXp and printproto pages, that each > is used for testing that X install is OK. (Again, whether that's actually true > or not, ... .) > > I see though that both are already out of svn. Are the X tests, at least, that > use libXp/printproto, considered not relevant or worth doing? > > (More generally, what the 'Proposed changes' and 'Discussion about archiving > more GNOME packages' threads from Oct/Nov, flag up again is that handling of > deps-trees is still not very rigourous or automated in blfs.)
Dependencies are definitely not automated. How would you do that? -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
