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Re: language of choice for k-p packaging ...



On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 08:03:59PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> > This needs a reverse-lookup to generate the dependencies.
> The dependencies can be set by hand, i believe, and don't really need to be
> set by arch, the important thing is the list of actual tools used.

Eek, you really want to depend against a tool which can't be used
anyway?

> Yeah, well. might be overkill for what we need, do we really need all this
> complexity ? 

One or two levels of lookups don't really make a difference. But I think
this makes it more robust.

> > I'm not sure about the linux-initramfs-tool part of the dependency.
> That is a virtual package, so future ramdisk tool can satisft the dependency,
> without needing to recompile the kernel.

No, I was not sure how to handle this part of the dependency group.

Bastian

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