Re: lablgtkmathview, netstring, xstr, netclient, pxp, meta-ocaml

[Sven <luther@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr>]

On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 05:46:50PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 05:32:51PM +0100, Sven wrote:
> > But imagine i did build a bytecode executable on machine X, and just copied
> > the bytecode executable to machine Y, which does not have the developper libs
> > installed, it will not run.
> > 
> > Also imagine i did get a ocaml bytecode executable from somewhere not debian,
> > and want to test it.
> <snip>
> > What do you think about this argument ?
> 
> These problem fits our metapackages issues only if you think that in
> such a case, a user try to solve the problem installing a full ocaml
> packages bundle.
> 
> When you install a non debian software that fails loading a library, are
> you going to install all lib* packages? Surely not, you are going to
> find which debian packages contains the library you need.
> 
> Surely, while ocaml distribution is not huge, the "install all" solution
> works for ocaml stuff, but is not an enduring solution even if your
> "install all" idea is restricted to only the runtimes. In the future we
> hope, we can have a lot of packages containing ocaml runtimes ...

Ok, lets go with your solution then ...

BTW, but it would make more sense to name the package ocaml-dev-lib or
something such also, ... well, maybe ocaml-dev-kit, or somthing such, or maybe
even ocaml-cdk :)))

Friendly,

Sven Luther