On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 07:57:00PM +0200, Gabor Gombas wrote: > On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 07:15:53PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > > You are missing the point. > > > > What if the library says "You must call /usr/bin/foo during build"? > > But the library can't say "foo must come from a Debian package". What if > I have my local replacement? Why should I be forced to install a package > that is now useless for me (and installing it would only cause confusion > as there are now two different tools with the same name present in > $PATH)? How is this different with _any_ dependency on the system? Do you suggest that iceweasel should drop its libgtk dependency, because users might want to use their own compiled version of it? Thanks, Bas -- I encourage people to send encrypted e-mail (see http://www.gnupg.org). If you have problems reading my e-mail, use a better reader. Please send the central message of e-mails as plain text in the message body, not as HTML and definitely not as MS Word. Please do not use the MS Word format for attachments either. For more information, see http://pcbcn10.phys.rug.nl/e-mail.html
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