Re: [Fink-devel] gettext-dev and libiconv-dev dependencies

[Max H. <ma...@qu...>]

Am 31.12.2003 um 21:00 schrieb Martin Costabel:

> Ben Hines wrote:
>> On Dec 22, 2003, at 4:50 AM, Martin Costabel wrote:
> []
>>> I am dreaming of a mechanism that would remove a BuilDependsOnly 
>>> package immediately after it is used. This would not only solve this 
>>> problem, but also come in handy in other situations (it would help 
>>> with the freetype2 mess, for example).
>> That is planned.

It is??? Did you folks really think this through? I'd be curious to 
learn how that should be doable, see below...

> I have been thinking about this some more, and I would now like to 
> propose this seriously as a solution for several problems that were 
> biting us recently. The more I think about it, the more it seems to me 
> that we will *have to* do this.
>
> Here is the proposal:
>
> 1. Allow the packages that have "BuildDependsOnly: true" (short: 
> "buildonly" packages) to Depend on other buildonly packages
>
> 2. Introduce a "reaper" that removes *all* buildonly packages. The 
> reaper has to run every time before fink starts a package build 
> process.

Doesn't sound like a good idea. Many people (including me) who actually 
use fink packages for development would be very unhappy about this. I 
need a lot of our buildonly packages (e.g. -dev package with header 
files). Having to manually reinstall them whenever I use fink to 
install something would be a nightmare (and essentially make fink 
useless).


Bye,

Max