On Sun, 2005-11-13 at 20:28 +0000, Chris Cannam wrote:
> Does that mean that most packagers feel that some failed dependencies 
> are OK?

Yes. For instance, bundling GTK+ or Pango would be quite unusual.

> Does autopackage normally warn and exit if a vital library not 
> bundled is not found?

It does, assuming you put a dependency check in. It can also resolve
some dependencies itself.

> I would guess that if ~/.config/menus/[something other than debian-*] 
> exists, it's probably a bad idea to run update-menus.  I'd much rather 
> not have my new package on the K menu than have everything else go 
> missing.

OK. I'll add this to the todo list.

> > [...] the new support in 1.2 can transparently fix it for
> >    every C++ app.
> 
> How?

The brute force approach. Each binary is compiled twice, once with each
compiler. A binary delta is taken between the two to reduce package
size. LZMA compression is used to shrink the package still further. So,
it increases package compile time a lot, and package size a little bit,
but it's guaranteed to work.

We looked at more elegant or efficient solutions, but they were usually
foiled by GCC bugs.

thanks -mike



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