To Require or not to Require?

Andreas Schwab schwab at redhat.com
Fri Aug 12 14:21:48 UTC 2011


Miloslav Trmač <mitr at volny.cz> writes:

> There is one difference: with subpackages it is trivial to write a
> Requires: that 1) is always strict enough and 2) is always satisfied.
> For external packages achieving both requires non-trivial human
> effort.

Yet you insist that your "external" package is always working.

Andreas.

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