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Re: [64bit] Biber packaging questions


On 2013-06-16 06:38, Ken Brown wrote:
On 6/15/2013 8:37 AM, Achim Gratz wrote:
It's easy enough to provide bundle packages and the normal user would
never need to look at the individual distribution packages.

Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't see the need for bundle
packages.  Take the example of biber.  I had to build a bunch of perl-*
packages, and cygport figured out the dependencies among them and the
dependencies of biber.  A user who installs biber automatically gets the
necessary Perl modules without ever having to look at them in the
chooser.  How would a bundle make this easier?

A few of the perl-* packages are needed for building biber but not for
using it.  I took care of these by setting DEPEND in the .cygport files.
  So people who want to replicate the build will need to select the
necessary packages [listed by cygport] in the chooser.  A bundle would
admittedly make this easier.

But there's nothing special about Perl modules here.  You always have to
worry about build dependencies when you build a package from source. And
we are not yet at the point where we are asking maintainers (or cygport)
to create build-dependency packages.

I agree completely.  There is no need for bundles.


Yaakov


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