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

[Auke Kok]

On 08/25/2011 05:31 AM, Dennis Veatch wrote:
> 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.
>
>

pkgconfig dependencies are direct dependencies ... and never indirect. 
after all, the application needs direct linking and compiling against 
the headers from them.

Auke