2008/6/3 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> > How is this any different from the behavior that we have today? I can >> > write a package with a dependency on a package that isn't in the >> > repository. At least in the current code, we don't require that that the >> > dependent packages be present in the catalog. >> >> It is different because the server won't have the information >> necessary to tell you which package provides the file. > > This is true only if you assume that the server has to be able to figure > this out and that it cannot fail.
Agreed. > In a previous post you observed that for the case where many or no > packages are found to match, we should fail. In such a case, the > developer who is publishing the package must specify the pkg dependency > explicitly. Yes, that was my intent. Thanks for the clarification. -- Shawn Walker _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
