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Re: ocaml-findlib: to X or not to X



On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 01:28:36PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 10:37:04AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> > Just one last question though, how will findlib react if you have a package
> > which needs one of the X components, and it is not installed ? 
> 
> Probably the best thing to do would be to distribute META files
> separated from ocamlfind itself. Still I don't think it's worth the
> effort since they are just a few files ...

Like said, i would be happy with simply having ocamlfind depend on ocaml-nox,
and maybe suggest, which is the weakest of the dependencies and not
automatically followed by aptitude, on ocaml. But even not having it should be
ok.

Friendly,

Sven Luther



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