On Wed, 8 Mar 2006 09:10:58 -0800
"Dan Nicholson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On 3/8/06, Chris Staub <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > I think deps. that are needed for testsuites could be labeled as
> > being "optional" (notice I already started doing that for a few
> > packages) but you could do the same with several others. For
> > example...
> 
> I saw that and started making those same changes in my sandbox. 
> However, this could become pretty ugly.  Perhaps if there was a
> separate Optional Dependencies heading.  Or Testing Dependencies.  Or,
> since LFS doesn't include that many packages, we could make a single
> page with a table that lists all the deps.  I think this was already
> suggested before.
> 
> Just for the case of automake and it's ridiculous test suite
> dependency list, some sort of policy needs to be decided on.  For now,
> let's continue putting in the deps as they've been found.  We can
> always change the appearance later.
> 
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why not follow the gentoo aproach?
separate depedencies for what they are needed: runtime, build and
testsuite ?
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