dependency hell

[Nick Hudson]

Carl R. Powers wrote:

> Nick,
>
> Looking at the error trying to compile glibmm without doxygen,
> I would guess that the package author actually used doxygen in
> creating or installing the package documentation.   Maybe he's into
> desktop publishing.  That said, it still is a poor choice for millions of
> users when that is the only package I've encountered  outside of
> desktop publishing which mandates it's use.  If I'm right, it's not
> a bug, just a lousy choice.
>
> Carl Powers
> <powers at trac.wsmr.army.mil>

Yeah good point there.  I donno why they did that maybe I should still 
write a email or something complaining about it. 

nick




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> Nick Hudson wrote:
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>> Date:
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>> Maybe I should report it then??  I did find it kind of odd that I
>> couldnt build it without it and I have never seen another app that would
>> actually depen on something like that.
>>
>> Nick
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>> On Thu, 2004-04-15 at 08:37 +0200, Jasper Huijsmans wrote:
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>>> Jasper Huijsmans wrote:
>>> ...
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>>>> I think doxygen should be an optinal depends, like gtk-doc is for 
>>>> C-based gnome apps.
>>>>
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>>> Oops sorry Nick, didn't see your other reply. I think I read 
>>> something about this on a gnome list, but I can't find it now. They 
>>> will definitely consider this a bug as well, when you can't build 
>>> this without doxygen.
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