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  • From: Andraž 'ruskie' Levstik <ruskie AT codemages.net>
  • To: flux <flux AT sourcemage.org>, sm-commit AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Commit] GIT changes to master grimoire by Peng Chang (Charles) (321ae4a9af4a214510d1a4f22d5f1f7a09cae17c)
  • Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 07:20:33 +0200 (CEST)

:2010-07-20T10:24:flux:

> With regards the statement "dependencies should be explicit not
> implicit", to an extent, yes. However, there is a point where explicit
> dependencies are unneeded and, in some cases, even a bad idea.

In case of texinfo it's enough that one thing depends on install-info
and it is necessary.

With libs it's needed so that any up triggers work.

> In the case of depending on a compiler (like gcc), I don't think that
> makes sense on a source-based distro unless a spell really depends on a
> specific compiler (like it works only with gcc due to gcc extensions or
> something similar).

Not everything but texinfo is optional to basesystem. And there's quite
a few spells that have a ncurses dependency and there's probably a lot
more that don't have it.

Regards

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