Once again - right on the money about off-loading responsibility. Bob
On Wednesday 30 July 2003 11:17 am, Levi Ramsey wrote: > On Wed Jul 30 14:52 +0200, Buchan Milne wrote: > > You're going to have to be more specific. Which auto-generated deps? > > library deps (which have been in place for a long time, was it 9.0?), > > devel deps (which seem to be ok now), perl deps (which we inherited from > > Redhat who had them for RH 9 I think) or the new epoch stuff (which > > actually seems to be causing more problems and is due to rpm 4.2)? > > > > The perl dep regex *must* be fixed, it should at least look for a > > trailing ";", but I don't see any other non-standard cooker problems. > > It's mostly the perl deps (and maybe the devel deps) that have been the > problem for me (largely due to the braindead regexp); the heavier use of > dependencies on specific files is also something I'm not too keen on (if > only for aesthetic reasons). > > To some extent, I'm not keen on the idea of automatic dependencies; > afaik, debian (to pick the most prominent distribution) seems to get by > fine on about 3 million platforms without an auto-deps system (the fact > that no package gets uploaded until it builds on all platforms may have > something to do with that...), and I think that making it easier for > packagers to offload the responsibility to create ideal dependencies to > something/someone else is a dangerous idea. But that's just my $0.02.
