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List:       gobolinux-devel
Subject:    [gobolinux-devel] Issues with meta recipes
From:       lijon () kymatica ! com (Jonatan Liljedahl)
Date:       2006-01-17 22:18:47
Message-ID: 20060117215817.02e7781b.lijon () kymatica ! com
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On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 14:05:22 +0100
Jonas Karlsson <cj.karlsson@gmail.com> wrote:

> Is it a good thing that when compiling a meta recipe, every part is  
> symlinked when it's done. This was very annoying when compiling the
> xorg 7.0 recipe. And there could have been a problem since the
> installation was interupted halfway, which meant that only half of
> the xorg package was updated. As I have updated my toolchain since I
> compiled xorg 6.8.2 some parts could have been binary incompatible,
> which would had prevented me from starting X. A small but irritating
> problem.
> 
> Another issue with meta recipes is that the same question about the
> same dependency is asked for every part that has that dependency
> listed, if you should choose not to install it. This makes this
> installation far from autonomous as I have to check the compilation
> process every 10 minutes to see if it wants user input. The
> dependencies should be collected to the meta recipe and asked once at
> the begining of the installation.

Yes, and also for all dependencies recursively. So this is not only an
issue for meta recipes. And why not also show each dependency download
size? This is a thing I would really appriciate as a 56k user... =) 

/Jonatan    -=( http://kymatica.com )=-

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