Re: Packages removed from frozen
>>"David" == David Starner <dvdeug@x8b4e53cd.dhcp.okstate.edu> writes:
David> 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.
David> But is this a good thing? You save time and difficulty in the rare
David> instance of building for a new architecture, but at the cost of
David> increasing time and difficulty in working with the package on a
David> daily basis.
Do you really waste that much more time? Aftrer the first
build, you can still build multiple binary packages in the same
dpkg-buildpackage; you do not need to sign any more than you needed
to before.
The person installing the packages could even be grateful if
they have a farm of machines, and only install the docs on one
of them
Frankly, I thik the overhead is rather minimal.
manoj
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