Re: Forwarded: RFC: New source packaging format
On Wed, Oct 22, 1997 at 05:19:00PM -0800, Bruce Perens wrote:
> If I am not mistaken, _all_ source dependencies are actually binary
> dependencies, because they need the source to be _built_and_installed_.
> Debian does not presently know how to build the entire system with
> uninstalled libraries and headers, and I'm not sure it should be taught
> how to do that. Using the established control file is a good idea.
Porting a distribution without such a bootstrapping concept to new
hardware is a real pain. I've gone through it several times when
porting Linux to new hardware. Unfortuneately no Linux distribution
has such a concept. Imho it should go even further. I'd really love
to see something like "make world" from a single source tree a la BSD.
That system also guarantees more consistence across all the packages.
Just a small example, do you know how many copies of libiberty or libbfd
are contained in the Debian sources? What is the percentage of fixes,
updates or changes that have to be applied in multiple parts of the
system? I admit switching to such a system'd be a hell full of work,
but only once.
Ralf
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