[csw-pkgsubmissions] newpkgs gdb

[Peter FELECAN]

Dagobert Michelsen <dam at opencsw.org> writes:

> 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".

Well, I beg to differ: if a package bring info files it must depend on
the package which gives the mean to read them. Otherwise, why not
isolate systematically the info files in a specific package, e.g., -doc?
-- 
Peter