Re: Getting rid of circular dependencies
Le mardi 28 juin 2005 à 11:10 +0200, Arnaud Patard a écrit :
> Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> writes:
> > I don't see why they should be split, even though they are different.
> > The split would have a sense if gnome-control-center wasn't installed by
> > default, but this isn't the case as our policy is to make gnome-core
> > depend on it.
>
> Okay. But would that mean unsplitting packages that are in gnome-core
> depends ? I'll tend to say no (maybe I'm wrong)..., so why should the
> g-c-c be a particular case ?
Erm, g-c-c is the only package with such a split. Other splits are
justified by separating architecture-independent data or shared
libraries. I don't know of other splits, but if there are, we should
probably unsplit them the same way.
The point of unsplitting g-c-c is that most users that would only want
capplets (users running a full GNOME desktop) are using gnome-core,
which in turn depends on g-c-c. If there are users of the g-c-c
interface, they install g-c-c, which in turn depends on capplets. Given
that g-c-c is only 200 KB, unsplitting makes a lot of sense.
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