From: Koen Kooi <k.kooi@student.utwente.nl>
To: openembedded-devel@openembedded.org
Subject: Re: xserver-xorg rdepends
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 19:09:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <gdagrg$8l5$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200810171755.28288.mickey@vanille-media.de>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-17 17:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-16 19:19 xserver-xorg rdepends Phil Blundell
2008-10-16 19:53 ` Koen Kooi
2008-10-16 20:02 ` Otavio Salvador
2008-10-16 20:17 ` Koen Kooi
2008-10-17 11:54 ` Otavio Salvador
2008-10-17 8:51 ` Phil Blundell
2008-10-17 11:59 ` Otavio Salvador
2008-10-17 15:55 ` Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
2008-10-17 17:09 ` Koen Kooi [this message]
2008-10-17 18:05 ` Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
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