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  • From: Casey Harkins <charkins AT upl.cs.wisc.edu>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] requests for spells on ISO
  • Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2004 10:51:21 -0600 (CST)



On Thu, 1 Apr 2004, Seth Alan Woolley wrote:
> Note for the future:
>
> And you mentioned the perl dependency for linux ... I'd like to have the
> option to not have perl in the basesystem. In fact maybe we need to
> make a distinction between "runtime_depends" and "build_depends" if it's
> not both. That way it could cast (as in resurrect if already built)
> perl, build linux, and then dispel perl when the last spell that needed
> it in the install list completed (while optionally keeping a cache
> laying around). If we wanted to have more fun, gcc itself could be
> eliminated in that way and only resurrected for stuff that needed it.
> This would make it really easy to copy a bunch of caches over and since
> most stuff doesn't need a runtime_depends on the full gcc, we could make
> zaurus/embedded/server ports really easy. runtime_depends don't have to
> be dependency ordered during building, as well. Anybody following me?
>

I like this idea. As sorcery gains support for reliably sharing cache
files across a network, a full development environment on some machines
will be unnecessary (and possibly undesired).

-casey




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