Re: Dependency and priority mismatches
On 19 Jan 1998, Guy Maor wrote:
> Enrique Zanardi <ezanardi@noah.dfis.ull.es> writes:
>
> > I guess slang should have a higher priority, as it will be in the new
> > boot-floppies and base system.
>
> Boot-floppies, yes. Base system also?
>
> I sent some email to Bruce and sr1-boot-floppies on 1/11 about
> util-linux, but no reply.
>
> ----
> If I make the default cfdisk linked against slang, libslang needs to
> move from /usr/lib to /lib, and libslang needs to be on the base disks
> and in the base section. Is that the plan?
>
> Two other alternatives would be a cfdisk-slang package that wouldn't
> normally be installed or if I simply apply the patch but turn it off
> by default. Boot disk creation would then have to do something like:
> cd .../util-linux-2.7.1/disk-utils
> make SLCURSES=1 cfdisk
> cp cfdisk ...
> ---
>
> Do you know anything about this? bash is always going to need
> ncurses, so there's no way we can remove ncurses from base.
> Personally I think one of my two alternatives is most reasonable.
Well, I'm working on the boot-floppies package these days, and as I have
set it up, it includes both SLang and ncurses in the base system (only
SLang in the rescue disk). IIRC, Bruce advocates for using SLang to
replace ncurses where we can, so that's what I've been trying to do.
I prefer having a default cfdisk linked against SLang, as we have the
default ae linked against SLang, it makes my work easier :-) but the
cfdisk-slang package is OK. About the third alternative, I don't like the
idea of making boot-floppies source-depends on util-linux, if we can
avoid it.
Thanks,
--
Enrique Zanardi ezanardi@ull.es
Dpto. Fisica Fundamental y Experimental Univ. de La Laguna
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