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[Dagobert Michelsen]

Hi Peter,

Am 24.01.2011 um 17:30 schrieb Peter FELECAN:
> Dagobert Michelsen <dam at opencsw.org> writes:
>> Hi Peter,
>> 
>> Am 24.01.2011 um 14:43 schrieb Peter FELECAN:
>>> Dagobert Michelsen <dam at opencsw.org> writes:
>>>> Am 24.01.2011 um 10:49 schrieb Peter FELECAN:
>>>>> Dagobert Michelsen <dam at opencsw.org> writes:
>>>>>> The rationale behind this is that not all people actually "enjoy"
>>>>>> texinfo. The CAS has therefore been written to print a notice if
>>>>>> texinfo is not installed at the moment and if it is later installed
>>>>>> all pending .info-files will be reregistered. This is documented
>>>>>> here:
>>>>>> http://wiki.opencsw.org/cswclassutils-package#toc23
>>>>> 
>>>>> 1. I don't get this non dependency point. If texinfo is not installed,
>>>>> how can I access them easily, i.e., with an index and all? As an
>>>>> Emacs user I'm trifled by this...
>>>> 
>>>> You can't. But if you want to you can install the texinfo package at
>>>> any time and all registrations will be correct, regardless of the
>>>> install time of texinfo.
>>> 
>>> That I get. But why should I remove the dependency?
>> 
>> In fact it is usually handled as "soft dependency", that means you can
>> safely install it later optionally if you want texinfo. At least it is done
>> this way for the other packages :-)
> 
> Alright. But why should I remove the dependecy? Is not correct or what?

It is correct, but all other packages handle this differently by not
explicitly depending on it. So it may best be described as "behaves
different from the other OpenCSW packages".


Best regards

  -- Dago