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  • From: "Sergey A. Lipnevich" <sergey AT optimaltec.com>
  • To: Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>
  • Cc: Source Mage - Grimoire <sm-grimoire AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Grimoire] Explicit depend
  • Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2003 14:58:17 -0400

Well, I think that's the point of Eric's initial post: spells are stable, we can bring explicit dependencies on them back into DEPENDS.

Arwed von Merkatz wrote:

Not quite. The policy still is that xfree86 dependencies must be avoided for cases when people couldn't cast xfree86 using sorcery but managed to get it up manually. So that we have usually "assumed" that xfree86 is there if the spell in questions needed X.


That's very bad imho, point one: if casting xfree86 fails for many
people, the spell needs to be fixed, point two: if you install something
manually, you should add it to /var/state/sorcery/packages so sorcery
can pick it up.
gcc doesn't need to be somewhere as depdency, since basically everything
needs gcc and glibc, afaik, all stuff in the basesystem DEPENDS doesn't
need to be depended on explicitly, all spells not in there need to be
mentioned explicitly as dependencies.








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