Subject: Re: dependencies showing up twice
To: None <tech-pkg@NetBSD.org>
From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@britannica.bec.de>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 05/21/2007 11:17:29
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 11:01:33AM +0200, Dieter Baron wrote:
>   Perhaps, but let's not all stop improving pkgsrc just because you
> plan a major overhaul for the last 1.5 years.  If your change will
> make it obsolete, that doesn't sound like a change to this script will
> cause you conflicts.  So what exactly would we gain by not fixing this
> bug?

This code is quite complicated and already has a number of cases where I
am not sure whether or not they are handled correctly. For that very
reason I want to avoid breaking it. We already do depend on the order in
some subtile ways, do you know all the interactions possible?

Joerg