Chris Quenelle wrote:
As another example, the NetBeans packages deliver small utility binaries
for a number of platforms
bundled into one large product that has identical bits across multiple
platforms. Presumably, you would
say that they shouldn't be doing that, since the dynamic linker for
Linux is not present in OpenSolaris.
Why would we install Linux binaries onto an OpenSolaris system? I would
imagine that you would have appropriate variants (?) for those that
would prevent that.
Or are you talking about a special runtime package that is encapsulated
with netbeans applications anytime that application is distributed to
allow it to run on multiple platforms?
There is also a larger philosophical issue about how draconian to be
with regards to automatically
detected dependencies. I can see that you are pretty far towards the
strict side of the spectrum. I
would be much further towards the loose/audit side of things. I am only
asking that we back off a little
more towards the middle of the spectrum on this issue. For example, we
could support explicit
dependency overrides that could be put in manually only when a specific
dependency was deemed to
be unnecessary by the package maintainer.
Wouldn't Brock's proposed depot consistency option to control whether
the dependency checking is done satisfy this particular need?
I don't really think you want to do this on a per-package basis.
--
Shawn Walker
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