Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:23:08 -0700 Donnie Berkholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Could someone explain why manually doing work is better than automatically detecting the deps? This sounds like an argumentagainst automation, and I'm not following it.Sometimes the magic will be wrong. For example, packages that have a .zip file in SRC_URI but that don't unpack that file (say, if they install it into sharedir as-is instead) don't need a dep upon unzip.
Couldn't the ebuild be wrong? For example, if the package manager uses fancy-unzip-replacement to unzip packages, but the ebuild depends on unzip, then wouldn't it fail? It seems like we're trying to have ebuilds DEPEND on something that in reality the package manager is doing.
Shouldn't the package manager depend on unzip instead? If circular references are the problem, then wouldn't it be better to find a better way to handle circular references (ie more specific ways of defining dependencies)?
The advantage I see with automagic PM dependency calculations is that the PM is the program calling unzip, so the PM ought to be able to figure out whether it needs to call unzip.
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