On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 8:06 PM, Alon Bar-Lev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't like packages that enable optional features automatically. > Users/packagers should choose what they wish and enable dependency > explicitly.
Exact. Automatic feature enabling can lead to "problems". For example someone rebuild all the Debian packages within two environments. One with as much as possible packages installed and one with as possible packages installed. "938 packages produced different binary packages according to debdiff. Of those, 477 produced different Depends line (caused by some features not being explicitely enabled, but not being explicitely disabled, usually)." > In this case, nsplugin seldom used anyway, and there is not much sense in > enabling both pcsc and openct. > And if the user has for some strange reason openct installed, does it mean > the result of OpenSC compilation should depend on it? > > I truly think users are able to choose, and I am sure distro packagers will > enable the features by the dependency of their packages. I have no doubts for "distro packagers". I am not so sure for "users". But if you (re)compile from source you may not be a "simple" user any more :-) Bye [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/01/msg00869.html -- Dr. Ludovic Rousseau _______________________________________________ opensc-devel mailing list opensc-devel@lists.opensc-project.org http://www.opensc-project.org/mailman/listinfo/opensc-devel
