On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 06:38:15PM -0700, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > I would like to solicit the opinion of the developers about the > value of adding Guile support to the default make package, at the > expense of two smallish additional dependencies. > http://blog.melski.net/2013/11/29/whats-new-in-gnu-make-4-0/ has a > write up on what guile support would bring.
I would just add guile support to the normal package. A few more libraries in the build-depends will not make as much harm as a lot of people trying to guess why Debian make does not support guile and why they have to install another different binary. IMHO, the bootstrapping thing is a problem to be solved by build stages, not by trimming functionality or by multiplying the number of binary packages. The gettext package, for example, has a long build-depends line, and I don't think that would be a reason to make different gettext packages. Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140511110204.ga6...@cantor.unex.es
