Dependency loops considered harmful?
Matthew Woehlke
mw_triad at users.sourceforge.net
Fri Sep 5 16:34:26 UTC 2008
Patrice Dumas wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 01:31:56PM -0500, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
>> ...which is, in a sense, the real problem. The issue as I see it is that
>> rolling an RPM takes a *lot* more time and effort than 'make install',
>> especially with CMake (2.6 does /very/ fast installs). It would be
>> REALLY GOOD to install everything as an rpm (not least because this
>> would clean up cruft from old builds!), but it needs to be fast, and it
>> needs to be do-able without using root privilege. Otherwise I think the
>> costs will outweigh the benefits for a lot of people.
>
> In many situations rolling a rpm doesn't make sense. An easy example is
> numerical models. You compile it, run it and there is absolutely no reason
> to make it a package.
Sure, but if you didn't install it, you've obviated half the benefit
anyway. I'm interested in things that get installed.
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