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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Dependencies and packaging (Re: [Administrivia] On ruby and contrib/)
Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2013 14:31:24 -0700
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To: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
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Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:

>                                      Git is probably the _last_ thing
> to be complaining about when it comes to packaging.

It would be nice if contrib/ files supported the usual "make; make
install; make clean" targets.  That's missing functionality that does
matter to at least one packager.

It would be nice if the dependencies associated to each piece of
functionality or makefile flag were documented more clearly.
Currently when e.g. features of gitweb gain dependencies I don't
notice until the testsuite fails.

Jonathan