-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 08/08/2010 03:41 AM, Timothy Rice wrote: > Hi everyone who is following this topic, > > I was contemplating how to implement dependency tracking in the Package > User system and had an idea. Perhaps it would be of interest. > > ---Snip--- > > What I have in mind is that the package users' skel directory could > contain subdirectories called "depends" and "reverse-depends". These two > directories will be given to every new package, and they can be populated > with symlinks to the home directories of packages on which the current > package is (reverse) dependent. > > ---snip--- > > Opinions? Are there any obvious problems that I might have overlooked? > >
Hi Tim, I'm coming from Slackware, so I'm used to manually tracking dependencies. Your idea sounds like a good way to track dependencies without a ton of additional work. Just a few of questions: 1) Is the idea to apply the dependency symlinks to packages beyond LFS? 2) What do you do about nested dependencies? For instance, when building QGIS, there is at least one package, PostGIS, requires three others -- but two of those (IIRC) are also needed by QGIS itself. 3) What about libraries that several packages depend upon? Regards, - -Drew -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkxexQ8ACgkQ7ZZ4z2wRxN1cdQCffGt955uVx/hV3ETfbBVdZdf8 IzMAn0SJ/Z63P7WfwkfCQzb9+exV7JLv =UPNB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
