Re: [Fink-devel] pkgconfig policy

2003-08-29 Thread David R. Morrison
> What about fixing the fink dep engine, so that BuildDependsOnly > packages may depend on other BuildDependsOnly, and then a kde packahe > could BuildDepend on kdelibs3-dev and a few other -dev packages it > needs, and fink will make sure everything needed is there; fink would > need to recurs

Re: [Fink-devel] pkgconfig policy

2003-08-29 Thread Chris Zubrzycki
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday, August 28, 2003, at 10:07 AM, Peter O'Gorman wrote: On Thursday, August 28, 2003, at 10:31 PM, Benjamin Reed wrote: Peter O'Gorman wrote: I don't see the need for this to be in a Recommends field, would it not be better in a Desc* type

Re: [Fink-devel] pkgconfig policy

2003-08-28 Thread Peter O'Gorman
On Thursday, August 28, 2003, at 10:31 PM, Benjamin Reed wrote: Peter O'Gorman wrote: I don't see the need for this to be in a Recommends field, would it not be better in a Desc* type field, or simply as a #comment in the .info file? It's not a matter of need, but it does make sense to me. If

Re: [Fink-devel] pkgconfig policy

2003-08-28 Thread Benjamin Reed
Peter O'Gorman wrote: Hi David, On Thursday, August 28, 2003, at 09:41 PM, David R. Morrison wrote: SHORT TERM SOLUTION: Although we should not allow a -dev splitoff to Depend on another -dev splitoff, we can use the "Recommends" field to specify the other -dev splitoffs which are relevant.

Re: [Fink-devel] pkgconfig policy

2003-08-28 Thread David R. Morrison
"Peter O'Gorman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi David, > > On Thursday, August 28, 2003, at 09:41 PM, David R. Morrison wrote: > > > > SHORT TERM SOLUTION: > > Although we should not allow a -dev splitoff to Depend on another -dev > > splitoff, we can use the "Recommends" field to specify the

Re: [Fink-devel] pkgconfig policy

2003-08-28 Thread Peter O'Gorman
Hi David, On Thursday, August 28, 2003, at 09:41 PM, David R. Morrison wrote: SHORT TERM SOLUTION: Although we should not allow a -dev splitoff to Depend on another -dev splitoff, we can use the "Recommends" field to specify the other -dev splitoffs which are relevant. This will be useful for