[Lunar-commits] <moonbase> exo: tweak the depends.

[Dennis Veatch]

On Wednesday 24 August 2011 9:42:32 PM Auke Kok wrote:
> On 08/23/2011 04:33 AM, samuel wrote:
> > Why are you doing this??? exo *CHECKS* if you have glib-2 installed,
> > so it must be in DEPENDS!
> > 
> > On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 11:37 AM, Florin Braescu<florin at lunar-linux.org>  
wrote:
> >> commit 2b255d8c19d3e8f501a80bbbc6edca07b46b32c1
> >> Author: Florin Braescu<florin at lunar-linux.org>
> >> Date:   Tue Aug 23 13:37:41 2011 +0400
> >> 
> >>     exo: tweak the depends.
> 
> yes, we skip a lot of dependencies already, but if pkgconfig is used to
> test for dependencies, and someone has added them to a package, we
> should really keep them in the DEPENDS file.
> 
> I realize it sounds kind of counter intuitive, but think about what we
> could do if we had pkgconfig -> dependency tools in place...
> 
> Auke
> _______________________________________________

Not quite clear how a pkgconfig type dependency tool would be any better than 
fleshing out a DEPENDS. I can sort of grasp where your headed with that idea 
but it is a little muddy to me.


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Dennis `stumbles` Veatch
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