On Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 12:07:06PM -0500, David R. Morrison wrote: > Dear Fink developers, > > In the course of working to update several of fink's "essential" > packages, some of us have come to realize that we need a policy change: > we need packages to explicitly declare their dependencies on essential > packages. > > The contrary policy -- that packages should *not* declare dependencies > on essential packages -- has been part of the lore of Fink for some > time, although I do not believe it is written down anywhere.
It was stated as policy during discusions of the ->10.3 (I think) tree migration. Closest I know for current documentation is the Packaging Manual entry for "Essential" "All non-essential packages implicitly depend on the essential ones." > Comments and discussion are welcome. Sounds good to me. dan -- Daniel Macks [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.netspace.org/~dmacks ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Sybase ASE Linux Express Edition - download now for FREE LinuxWorld Reader's Choice Award Winner for best database on Linux. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=5588&alloc_id=12065&op=click _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
