Re: Package that can work with something in non-free - to build with it or not?
On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 08:09:44PM +0200, Hugo van der Merwe wrote:
> I am currently working on a package that can optionally support scilab.
> For the time being I'm not build-depending on scilab, and not building
> against it either, as scilab is in non-free. Can I be sure that the
> buildd's won't build with scilab? If scilab is installed, the configure
> script will use it. So I should probably look into some --disable-scilab
> type configure parameter?
Build-Conflicts, perhaps?
> Furthermore, how is something like this usually handled, "if the user
> wants scilab support, he can rebuild the package himself" ?
Tell the user to remove the Build-Conflicts line and rebuild.
Julian
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