On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 10:15:19AM +0100, Stéphane Glondu wrote:
> But anyway, because the plugins depend on the standard library of ocaml
> (most likely), ocaml-base-nox will be brough as a dependency to
> whichever package ships them, even though in practice it is not needed
> because the standard library is statically linked in the main program. I
> don't know how we can avoid this dependency, and we cannot just drop
> this kind of dependencies in general.
Sure. More pragmatically, there are 2 orthogonal issues here. One is the
one you mention on how to avoid this kind of dependencies, as long as
they are bogus. The other is giving to users the possibility of
minimizing their installation (e.g. by splitting a separate -plugins
package).
Cheers.
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