file dependencies and packages and [blocker] bugs
Bill Nottingham
notting at redhat.com
Mon Mar 3 18:52:05 UTC 2008
Hans de Goede (j.w.r.degoede at hhs.nl) said:
> Basicly: yes
> Because:
> -adding a Requires: /usr/share/fonts/foo/bar.ttf line to my package is trivial
... and causes additional megabytes to be downloaded for every transaction.
Note that actually addding these files to the repodata *breaks any dependency
solver that tries to use it.* Which is why it can't really happen.
> -games were designed with a certain look and feel, depending on getting that
> exacy font, fontconfig is somewhat fuzzy with which font you'll get
It is? You ask for liberationsans, you get liberationsans.
> -maintaining patches against each new upstream release for dozens of packages
> is not trivial, and that little snipped will have to be incorperated and
> maintained seperately for each of those dozens of apps
It's like porting to PAM or NSS instead of reading /etc/passwd by hand. You want
to integrate with the system, *you use the system libraries*. It's not about
what's easiest for the maintainer.
> -you so far have failed to provide the same snippet for java and pascal
> (real world examples), python (likely will be needed too) and
> perl (so far an academical argument)
Not to be blunt, but if you're packaging Pascal code, you've created your
own problem. :)
Bill
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