Re: [PATCH] cygport: suppress spurious package dependencies
Achim Gratz writes: >> What exactly are you trying to "fix" with this? > > The same thing as always: perl getting pulled in as a dependency for > perl_base, which defeats the whole purpose of having a base package in > the first place. Again, the dependency extraction just doesn't quite > work for things that have optional dependencies that are used if present > and do no harm if not: cygport will always pull them in and makes them a > hard requirement. > > There's an obvious copy bug in the patch, btw. The corrected patch can be had from: https://repo.or.cz/cygport/rpm-style.git/commitdiff/46a1534b523ada57855f5412f683c77a29dbed00 Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]>+ Factory and User Sound Singles for Waldorf rackAttack: http://Synth.Stromeko.net/Downloads.html#WaldorfSounds
Re: [PATCH] cygport: suppress spurious package dependencies
Yaakov Selkowitz writes: > On Wed, 2020-06-03 at 13:51 +0200, Achim Gratz wrote: >> The automatically generated dependencies sometimes have unwanted >> components. This patch allows to suppress these on a per-package basis, >> rather than requiring to patch the generated hint files after the fact. > > What exactly are you trying to "fix" with this? The same thing as always: perl getting pulled in as a dependency for perl_base, which defeats the whole purpose of having a base package in the first place. Again, the dependency extraction just doesn't quite work for things that have optional dependencies that are used if present and do no harm if not: cygport will always pull them in and makes them a hard requirement. There's an obvious copy bug in the patch, btw. Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]>+ Waldorf MIDI Implementation & additional documentation: http://Synth.Stromeko.net/Downloads.html#WaldorfDocs
Re: [PATCH] cygport: suppress spurious package dependencies
On Wed, 2020-06-03 at 13:51 +0200, Achim Gratz wrote: > The automatically generated dependencies sometimes have unwanted > components. This patch allows to suppress these on a per-package basis, > rather than requiring to patch the generated hint files after the fact. What exactly are you trying to "fix" with this? -- Yaakov
