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Re: Small package or big dependencies?



Hi,

Am Montag, den 02.08.2010, 10:37 +0200 schrieb Giovanni Mascellani:
> Il 02/08/2010 10:28, Joachim Breitner ha scritto:
> >> I think that the cleaner and preferable option is the first (use a
> >> standalone package), but I'd like to hear your opinion about that.
> > 
> > Letting gitit depend on libghc6-filestore-dev is no option. People don’t
> > want to install the haskell toolchain just to use a wiki.
> > 
> > What does the file contain?
> > 
> > Is it likely that an updated filestore will change the format of the
> > file? In that case, copying it while gitit is built sounds like the most
> > sensible solution. This corresponds to static linking: The code gets
> > copied, so the data has to be copied as well.
> > 
> > If we had dynamic linking, this would be different of course.
> 
> The file is a small script intended to be used as a hook in a Git
> repository; its purpose is to automatically update the working copy of a
> non-bare Git repository when something gets pushed into the currently
> checked out branch.
> 
> It's unlikely to be changes in the future, and anyway it's not strictly
> tied with a specific version of filestore.

Hm, I still think it ought to be copied to gitit. It is just not worth a
package of its own.

Is it installed automatically by gitit or just for user reference? In
the latter case, it could be moved
to /usr/share/doc/git/contrib/examples in the git package.

Greetings,
Joachim

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