Re: [Helidelinux-devel] Dependency management for software packaging

[Rolf V. <rol...@he...>]

Dependency information is only meaningful for a combination of
package/version/build-recipe. That means that probably a master
file with a map 'package/version -> dependencies' is pretty useless.
The correct map would be 'package/version/recipe -> dependencies'.
Ugly.

That means that dependencies are more a property of the build
recipe, a prerequisite for that particular recipe:

--
pkg binutils-2.14

build
   depends
     bash, coreutils, diffutils, gcc, gettext,
     glibc, grep, make, perl, sed, texinfo
   recipe \
     # here the build recipe

another_build
   depends
     # here other dependencies.
   recipe \
     # another recipe
--

Rolf.
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Just trying to think :-).