[csw-maintainers] Dependencies on SUNW packages (was: newpkgs libslp1, openslp_devel)

[Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski]

No dia 24 de Dezembro de 2010 13:14, Ben Walton <bwalton at opencsw.org> escreveu:
> Ok, but we've now veered into a different discussion.  We were
> originally discussing how to handle packages where a (variably named)
> SUNW dependency existed.  I think checkinstall is one (not necessarily
> the best) way of doing that.

Yes, let's go back to the original issue.  What we've established so
far is that we cannot reasonably depend on SUNW packages.  In the case
of cups, the slp package is not part of the core Solaris install, and
therefore it's a library that will be likely missing during cups
installs.  I've built openslp with the intention to provide OpenCSW's
own version of libslp.

My openslp packages have been rejected on the grounds that they aren't
any better than what's already in Solaris.  My argument is that you
cannot guarantee that the stock libslp will be there, while you can
guarantee this for an OpenCSW provided library.  What good is Solaris
libslp if it's not there?  Therefore, I argue that OpenCSW libslp is
better, because it's guaranteed to be in the filesystem thanks to
dependency mechanisms.

I would like to ask for permission to release openslp and link cups
against it, until a better solution comes along.