Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As to source dependency problems, it is my understanding that all the > packages in the main distribution can be built using only packages from > main.
That's a lot of packages. I've used .deb packages which include source on little dinky machines with only a couple hundred meg of hard drive. > Given that that doesn't tell you which packages those are, and that > a "standard" installation is supposed to give you "all the normal stuff" > it should be sufficient to name non-standard dependencies in the source > README file. This is supposed to be an improvement over putting the source in a .deb file? [Which, I remind you, can be taken apart using standard unix tools, and which can also be supported through a README file.] > There is no current declared method for this, and that makes > implimentation difficult, specially when most developers have what > they need for their packages and don't typically think about the > problem any further than that. Please don't blame the developers for not using a system which hasn't been designed or implemented. That sort of thing is unecessarily dogmatic. -- Raul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]