Re: Packages removed from frozen

[David Starner <dvdeug@x8b4e53cd.dhcp.okstate.edu>]

On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 05:41:31PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>         In these cases I suggest that the doc packages be broken out,
>  and only the doc package depends on teh binary packages. Voila! no
>  circular depends.
> 
>         This was the reason for suggesting that there be a public
>  investigation before allowing self build depends -- sometimes, you do
>  not need any.

But is this a good thing? You save time and difficulty in the rare
instance of building for a new architecture, but at the cost of
increasing time and difficulty in working with the package on a 
daily basis.

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