From: Matt Turner <mattst88@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] How to handle dependencies on protocol headers?
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 00:47:18 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEdQ38GhB5xWGPzWTHRZcOy6tPn+gH+Uv1MstMR4y-v41gEQjQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAr7Pr-xRy553X=ENM1yEeTiVQ8MXKYGi8sE=upEsmPQE3CP7w@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 12:36 AM, Alec Warner <antarus@gentoo.org> wrote:
> The first is more correct, I think, but it's also much more annoying.
> Mesa winds up having x11-proto/inputproto in DEPEND for some long
> forgotten reason, for instance.
>
> Why is it annoying?
Because the proto will have to be added as a dependency to a lot of
packages, when I think it's needed if and only if the package
(r)depends on the X11 library. Because of this, it can be quite prone
to missing dependencies.
Matt
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-16 4:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-16 4:32 [gentoo-dev] How to handle dependencies on protocol headers? Matt Turner
2011-09-16 4:36 ` Alec Warner
2011-09-16 4:47 ` Matt Turner [this message]
2011-09-16 4:42 ` [gentoo-dev] " Matt Turner
2011-09-16 4:49 ` Zac Medico
2011-09-16 5:00 ` Alexander Bersenev
2011-09-16 5:24 ` Matt Turner
2011-09-16 6:25 ` [gentoo-dev] " Ciaran McCreesh
2011-09-16 7:54 ` Michał Górny
2011-09-16 8:08 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2011-09-16 9:15 ` Brian Harring
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