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  • From: Nick Jennings <nkj AT namodn.com>
  • To: sm-sorcery AT lists.ibiblio.org, sm-grimoire AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [SM-Grimoire]Re: [SM-Sorcery][Fwd: xfree86 as a special case]
  • Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2002 01:20:20 -0700

Sorry for the brief message. but i'm slightly inebriated at the moment
( and not at home, making it particularly difficult to think).

I don't understand the problem...

If xclock doesn't depend on xfree, what does it depend on? does that
depend on xfree?


On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 10:15:59PM -0400, Dufflebunk wrote:
> Ok, one more time...
>
> -----Forwarded Message-----
>
> > From: Dufflebunk <dufflebunk AT dufflebunk.homeip.net>
> > To: sm-grimoire AT sourcemage.org, sorcery AT sourcemage.org
> > Subject: xfree86 as a special case
> > Date: 17 Oct 2002 20:29:52 -0400
> >
> > As you probably know, I'm responsible for scre^H^H^H^Hrewriting the
> > dependency stuff. I'm not sure what to do with xfree86. Currently when
> > you cast (from a new install) xclock without xfree86, it'll fail because
> > xfree isn't installed and it's not listed as a dependency. I know it's
> > not supposed to be listed, however, it does lead to a problem... the
> > gnome-profile and kde-profile list it as a dependency, but nothing else
> > depends on it. This causes it to be put near the end of the ordered list
> > of spells (ordered w.r.t casting order), and after some spells that in
> > reality do depend on it (but don't list it).
> >
> > One solution is for libdepends to check if xfree is in the list and if
> > it is, put it at the start, but then if some of xfree's depends aren't
> > cast yet, it'll fail... So that doesn't work.
> >
> > I'm not really sure what the best way to resolve this is.
> > Questions:
> > 1) Any suggestions on a solution?
> > 2) Are there any other spells in this same situation? (gcc? glibc?)
> >
> >
> > P.S. I hope the first paragraph makes sense... I've had my head stuck
> > in dependency stuff for the last week so I apologize if it is
> > non-sensicle.
> >
> > --
> >
> >
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>
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