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Re: new policy for packages
- From: "Gerrit P. Haase" <freeweb at nyckelpiga dot de>
- To: cygwin-apps at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 12:30:16 +0100
- Subject: Re: new policy for packages
- Organization: convey Information Systems GmbH
- References: <079301c19a87$404969a0$0200a8c0@lifelesswks>
- Reply-to: "Gerrit P. Haase" <freeweb at nyckelpiga dot de>
Robert,
2002-01-11 11:35:51, du schriebst:
> I want to suggest that the following become policy:
> No new packages are accepted that require non-packaged prerequisites.
[...]
> Thoughts?
Runtime only prerequisites?
e.g. in rpm-4 there are db sources included in the source package which
are statically linked in.
I think this is really obvious. If I want to include a package which
needs a dynamic version of db and the people are not able to fetch an
official port then I will go on and build this needed db too.
But to avoid discussions it should be mentioned at the guidelines.
Gerrit
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