Re: Feaping Creature-ism in core Debian Packages
Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> For a longe time now APT has had a special 'apt' target in it's
> debian/rules files, it builds only the main APT .deb and none of the other
> add-on debs. It might be really nice to have that same thing for the main
> x libs. To port alot of stuff you really need xlib, but the X servers
> can really wait.. (In particular I just futzed with this on ARM!)
Hm, I'd like to see something like that in nearly every multi-binary
package, myself. And debhelper at least does make this sort of thing pretty
easy. We'd just have to figure out how to consitently name the targets..
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see shy jo
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