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

[Dennis Veatch]

On Thursday 25 August 2011 8:11:05 AM Auke Kok wrote:
> 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

Well yes, I understand the purpose of pkgconfig. My question should have been: 
You want a DEPENDS or BUILD to look/be used in the same fashion as a .pc? 

If so wouldn't that take a fair amount of restructuring our tools? 

-- 
Dennis `stumbles` Veatch
Lunar Linux Developer
http://www.lunar-linux.org/