Martin Costabel wrote: > Anthony DeRobertis wrote: > [] > >> I'm rather curios why you'd want a IneheritedBuildDepends instead of >> just fixing the Depends handling --- because, currently, the >> installed gtk+2-dev is very much broken[0], and >> IneheritedBuildDepends (guessing from the name) won't fix that. > > > There is nothing broken if the advice in the description
Unless, of course, you're building software not packaged for fink. And even for fink, it is broken: What happens when gtk+-2 adds a new dependency? You have to change a lot of source packages. Forget one, you get weird bugs (like the ethereal one, which was first noticed over a year ago). > >> Any package which BuildDepends on this one must also BuildDepend on: >> atk1 (>= 1.6.0-1), glib2-dev (>= 2.4.0-1), pango1-xft2-dev (>= 1.4.0-1) > > > is followed. The only problem is that this has do be done manually and > is not done automatically. InheritedBuildDepends would be a method to do > it automatically. No, that doesn't solve the non-Fink software problem. You still have a package installed that, due to non-declared dependencies, is broken. > > I don't know, I have them all on my hard disk :-) > If you happen to have a subject & date, I'll track it down. Message-ID might help too. Thank you in advance! ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: NEC IT Guy Games. Get your fingers limbered up and give it your best shot. 4 great events, 4 opportunities to win big! Highest score wins.NEC IT Guy Games. Play to win an NEC 61 plasma display. Visit http://www.necitguy.com/?r=20 _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
