From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KqspF-0000Y5-1W for openembedded-devel@openembedded.org; Fri, 17 Oct 2008 19:09:21 +0200 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Kqsp7-0001zm-HA for openembedded-devel@openembedded.org; Fri, 17 Oct 2008 17:09:13 +0000 Received: from s55917625.adsl.wanadoo.nl ([85.145.118.37]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 17 Oct 2008 17:09:13 +0000 Received: from k.kooi by s55917625.adsl.wanadoo.nl with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 17 Oct 2008 17:09:13 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: openembedded-devel@openembedded.org From: Koen Kooi Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 19:09:04 +0200 Message-ID: References: <1224184795.4235.133.camel@lenovo.internal.reciva.com> <87fxmwqpe5.fsf@neumann.lab.ossystems.com.br> <1224233468.30790.125.camel@mill.internal.reciva.com> <200810171755.28288.mickey@vanille-media.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: s55917625.adsl.wanadoo.nl User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1b1pre) Gecko/20081006 Shredder/3.0b1pre In-Reply-To: <200810171755.28288.mickey@vanille-media.de> Sender: news Subject: Re: xserver-xorg rdepends X-BeenThere: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org List-Id: Using the OpenEmbedded metadata to build Distributions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 17:09:21 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 17-10-2008 17:55, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote: > Phil wrote: >> Historically, the general policy for RDEPENDS has been that it should >> list only those packages which are absolutely required for the software >> in question to do anything useful. For example, shared libraries >> without which you can't run the binary at all; interpreters without >> which you can't invoke the script; supporting datafiles without which >> the program will immediately crash, that kind of thing. If the program >> can run and do at least something useful without a given package being >> installed, we have not usually considered it to be a hard dependency. >> These kinds of "soft dependencies" have traditionally been a matter of >> DISTRO and/or MACHINE policy, being handled either through task >> packages, PACKAGE_INSTALL, RRECOMMENDS, or some similar mechanism. > > I agree. Consider this a vote for turning this into a RRECOMMENDS or dropping > it completely. You're a bit behind the times :) http://gitweb.openembedded.net/?p=openembedded.git;a=commit;h=ada680d9ac7180986f600f223b6ec01c7796dff8