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------- Additional Comments From ivan.lezhnjov.jr AT gmail.com  2008-01-19 07:56 
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(In reply to comment #17)
> It was one of your first DEPENDS that contained: "say y here if you said y 
> to 
> the previous question"
> That made me think that both of them are needed. Talk about clear 
> descriptions. :P

Sorry for that. I wrote commentaries so they sound that way because I had
encountered a few spells from the stable grimoire that provided commentaries
that sounded exactly like recommendations to me. That's why I decided that it 
is
a good practice to actually advise a user what choice to make but this is not 
a
good practice as we already figured out.

> Now I see the flags are bad anyway. Specifying the prefix where software 
> can be 
> found is indeed optional, but we are talking about the libs themselves 
> (switches like --with-gpgme and --with-libgpg-error if they exist). I 
> didn't 
> find any info on that on their website. Pardus and Gentoo only list gpgme 
> though, Pardus even as runtime only. This needs to be researched, maybe 
> there 
> are hints in the files in the tarball. ;)

In fact none of the accompanying information files explain this issue. I 
believe
that current version of DEPENDS suggests the best default choice pattern.

> And btw, it should be $INSTALL_ROOT/usr, but for this issue it is 
> irrelevant.

Fixed.

Btw ruskie told me that it is not allowed to use optional_depends when there's
only 1 actual choice, i.e. he said that current DEPENDS is all wrong. Is he
mistaking or did you overlooked this? :)

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