Re: Build-depends missing from packages.d.o
On Friday 08 November 2002 11:31, Gerfried Fuchs wrote:
> > ... I would like to see presented on the same page, with the same
> > format as the normal dependencies... Maybe even in the same list, with
> > a new icon... yellow bar or something like that...
>
> I don't really see any real help in there. If you want to compile the
> source package you have to grap the source files anyway, and there you
> are right at the correct place for that informations.
>
> What you are suggesting is to mix binary package informations with
> source package informations, that would simply confuse the users. What
> could be possible is to maybe do source package pages, too. But I
> personally don't see much benefit from that, usual users just need the
> binary packages, others usually are smart enough to read the source
> package dsc-file.
Ok, all acceptable reasons... but the least we can do is rename "[dsc]", or
add an extra link to it named build-depends? I mean "dsc" is not very
descriptive... At least I did not know what it was...
Egon
Egon
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