On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 02:47:15PM -0500, Nicolas Williams wrote: > On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 12:42:47AM +0530, Venky wrote: > > > > However, one problem with this is that it creates a situation where > > > > you are publishing a package that depends on a file in a package that > > > > hasn't been published yet. > > > > > > fail. > > > > Not really. If I am hosting a repository which provides the "mutt" > > package, I would rather not be forced to host "sendmail" or > > "postfix" also. > > We're talking about when the file dependency is resolved to a package > dependency, which would at package publication time. See the rest of > the thread.
Err.. no. Dependencies need to be resolved at installation time. It does not matter if they are file-based or package-based. Venky. -- One hundred thousand lemmings can't be wrong. _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
