Re: splitting ocamlmake and cmigrep off ocaml-tools
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 06:41:13PM +0200, Ralf Treinen wrote:
> In fact I am a bit surprised that packages actually build-depend
> on ocaml-tools. I had expected that people install the package just
> to have the latest version of ocamlmakefile around, and then copy the
> file into their project when they start a new one (as one does it
> for instance with config.sub and config.guess).
>
> % grep-dctrl -s Package -F Build-Depends ocaml-tools /var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.fr.debian.org_debian_dists_sid_main_source_Sources
> Package: approx
> Package: missinglib
> Package: ocaml-sha
> Package: ocaml-sqlite
> Package: pycaml
> Package: regexp-pp
> Package: syslog-ocaml
>
> I guess these build-dependencies are due to ocamlmakefile.
Well, I'm responsible for 3 of these :-), and I have an aversion to
copying anything when it can be installed once in /usr/share. A
holdover attitude from the days of small hard disks, I suppose.
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Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u
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