From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1Emcoh-0007X3-HN for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 14 Dec 2005 20:01:35 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jBEK0flx018991; Wed, 14 Dec 2005 20:00:41 GMT Received: from gw01.mail.saunalahti.fi (gw01.mail.saunalahti.fi [195.197.172.115]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jBEK0eAx013310 for ; Wed, 14 Dec 2005 20:00:40 GMT Received: from [192.168.150.87] (YYYMMMCCII.dsl.saunalahti.fi [85.76.10.103]) by gw01.mail.saunalahti.fi (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00F321039DD for ; Wed, 14 Dec 2005 22:00:38 +0200 (EET) Message-ID: <43A079E4.6050901@gentoo.org> Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 22:00:36 +0200 From: =?UTF-8?B?UGV0dGVyaSBSw6R0eQ==?= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-java@gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-java@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-java] ideas for packages which use maven to build References: <1134579920.4739.23.camel@francisco-repilado.nfic.com> <43A066CA.9070708@gentoo.org> <1134590058.7590.8.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <1134590058.7590.8.camel@localhost> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.92.0.0 OpenPGP: url=http://users.tkk.fi/~praty/public.asc Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig7CC97FBFE7AA188EFD754358" X-Archives-Salt: d0775e93-3bdf-4594-a797-0d3be5c0bafc X-Archives-Hash: c91c1081aa147ff3f7aee4ccb32e2cb1 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig7CC97FBFE7AA188EFD754358 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Greg Tassone wrote: > On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 19:39 +0100, Karl Trygve Kalleberg wrote: > > Karl, > I'm a little confused by the above statement. Are you agreeing with > Josh, or disagreeing? In other words, are you in favor of the tedium > because it gives the ability to check for hidden dependencies? > As far as I understood it a global repo enables hidden dependencies, but we can go around this by just populating the repo with broken symlinks. They don't work unless the package is actually installed and as such we don't have broken depencies. Cleaning every java package away and starting from stratch is any way something we developers should do when committing new packages. > > I agree, although this really is an upstream problem I think. If they > aren't even properly documenting what libraries their application > depends on, I see that as a bigger problem we shouldn't necessarily try > to fix for them. I understand that this does happen in the real world, > however. :-) > If I gave you a penny everytime upstream has good documentation on their dependencies, you wouldn't get too many. Regards, Petteri --------------enig7CC97FBFE7AA188EFD754358 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDoHnmcxLzpIGCsLQRArliAJ4uKOJyUO4/kUB5ST8fzm9IwkZdogCfdARe 8+RA+EkzUxFhat+5cUYNq6E= =f3mF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig7CC97FBFE7AA188EFD754358-- -- gentoo-java@gentoo.org mailing list