Alan Coopersmith wrote:
However, once you have faceted packages, you'll also want these dependencies
to only apply to specific facets, such as .h dependencies being used when
you install the development facet but ignored if you don't. I know Bart's
spent some time thinking about these - will your work tie into that as well?
[1] http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/pkg-discuss/2009-March/011865.html
Indeed; facets are the right way to deal w/ "nice to have in case you
need it" portions of the package. It makes no sense to install the
components for which you don't have the dependencies installed, so
that bit that requires perl in Chris's example should be faceted
such that the dependency on perl is also faceted.
- Bart
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