Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > Something like: > > make build-core | build-xdriver | build-wxgui | build-tkgui > > make install-core | install-xdriver | install-wxgui | install-tkgui > > would be more modular and clean. Of course, one can always now > install the whole beast, use only what is of interest and avoid > installing all dependencies. As said, it works too. > But I - as packager - would prefer avoiding tons of silly reports > about 'command X is not working because Y is missing' and installing > most required dependencies for all commands provided.
You can package it how you want, but I don't think that it's realistic to structure GRASS around individual packagers' policies (e.g. who says what is "core" and what isn't). Every optional dependency can be disabled at configure time. At build time, you can build individual directories. In 7.0, you can control the target directory (ARCH_DISTDIR) separately from the directory where previously built components are found (GISBASE). Packaging involves work, and GRASS is no different to any other package. E.g. most modern Linux distributions split libraries between a run-time package containing the shared libraries and a -devel package containing the headers, static libraries etc. The source tree from which the package is built doesn't provide explicit support for this; it's just something the packager has to do. Moreover, integrating (and subsequently maintaining) the support for various packaging systems would be significantly more work for the GRASS developers than it would take for the package maintainers to maintain their own packaging systems privately. A privately-maintained system only needs to work to the level of "works for me". Something intended for inclusion into the source tree has to be more "finished", which can take more work than creating the original version. -- Glynn Clements <gl...@gclements.plus.com> _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev