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  • From: "Eric Sandall" <eric AT sandall.us>
  • To: sm-grimoire AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Grimoire] Explicit depend
  • Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2003 13:41:53 -0700 (PDT)

Sergey A. Lipnevich said:
> 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.
<snip>

Correct. When I said explicit, I meant that if a depends of that package
didn't have some dependency down the road on what it needs, that put it in
the package. This way no cast will ever fail for a lack of a certain
package installed, otherwise this brings us back to the rpm days, where
you try to install something and it say, "Hey, I can't install because you
still haven't installed package X, now you go do it while I sit here and
waste my numerous cycles."

So, in the case of xdvi, it should have 'depends xfree86' in it, same
with gtk+2, but then packages which depend on gtk+2 and xfree86 will only
need to have 'depends gtk+2'.

-sandalle

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