On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 08:19:29AM -0400, Ricardo Signes wrote:
> * David Golden [2009-10-09T07:47:00]
> > 10. Add a free-text prerequisite field
>
> Strongly oppose. The META file is meant to tell machines about dists. This
> will not be useful.
Agreed. This kind of information should be in t
David Golden wrote:
>Add free-text entries that *describe* prerequisites that cannot be
>described right now,
No thanks. Let's work on ways to machine-readably describe more kinds
of prerequisite. C library dependencies are currently a pain to deal
with, but their names are reasonably invariant,
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 8:45 AM, Graham Barr wrote:
> On Oct 9, 2009, at 6:47 AM, David Golden wrote:
>
>> 10. Add a free-text prerequisite field
>>
>> Proposal:
>>
>> Add free-text entries that *describe* prerequisites that cannot be
>> described right now, like "prerequisite: a working libexpat"
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 4:19 PM, Ricardo Signes
wrote:
> * David Golden [2009-10-09T07:47:00]
>> 10. Add a free-text prerequisite field
>
> Strongly oppose. The META file is meant to tell machines about dists. This
> will not be useful.
Partly disagree. META is for machines to easily extract da
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 10:13 AM, Steffen Mueller
wrote:
>> Putting human-readable stuff in a file intended primarily for
>> machine-readability seems of minimal use to me.
>
> I'm in two minds about this. Such a free form field may be useful if you
> consider that human-readable information may be
Hans Dieter Pearcey wrote:
Excerpts from David Golden's message of Fri Oct 09 07:47:00 -0400 2009:
10. Add a free-text prerequisite field
Proposal:
Add free-text entries that *describe* prerequisites that cannot be
described right now, like "prerequisite: a working libexpat", "Need a perl
with
On Oct 9, 2009, at 6:47 AM, David Golden wrote:
10. Add a free-text prerequisite field
Proposal:
Add free-text entries that *describe* prerequisites that cannot be
described right now, like "prerequisite: a working libexpat", "Need
a perl
with defined-or", "Need root access to /media/test".
Excerpts from David Golden's message of Fri Oct 09 07:47:00 -0400 2009:
> 10. Add a free-text prerequisite field
>
> Proposal:
>
> Add free-text entries that *describe* prerequisites that cannot be
> described right now, like "prerequisite: a working libexpat", "Need a perl
> with defined-or", "N
* David Golden [2009-10-09T07:47:00]
> 10. Add a free-text prerequisite field
Strongly oppose. The META file is meant to tell machines about dists. This
will not be useful.
--
rjbs
10. Add a free-text prerequisite field
Proposal:
Add free-text entries that *describe* prerequisites that cannot be
described right now, like "prerequisite: a working libexpat", "Need a perl
with defined-or", "Need root access to /media/test". (Tux)
Comments:
* This form of prerequisite assumes
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