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RE: [FINALLY]: Mutt-1.4-1 package ready
- From: "Gary R. Van Sickle" <g dot r dot vansickle at worldnet dot att dot net>
- To: "Cygwin-Apps" <cygwin-apps at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 21:21:26 -0500
- Subject: RE: [FINALLY]: Mutt-1.4-1 package ready
> > > Also, libintl2 requires libiconv2, so he should only need to depend on
> > > libintl2. Similarly, libncurses6 requires terminfo, so he should only
> > > need to depend on libncurses6.
> > >
> >
> > http://cygwin.com/setup.html#setup.hint recommends this:
> >
> > "Hierarchical dependencies should work correctly, however, it is best to
> always
> > include specific dependencies, i.e. don't drop 'bar' from your dependency
> list
> > if your package requires it, even if you are including 'foo' which relies
> on
> > 'bar'."
>
> Read it more closely! That paragraph describes the following -direct-
> dependency case:
>
> package: foo bar
> foo: bar
>
> but.. the mutt situation is (truncated)
> mutt: libncurses6
> libncurses6: terminfo
>
> so listing terminfo IS incorrect, unless a -direct- dependency exists.
>
None that I can see. Terminfo is gonesville man! There are direct dependencies
on libiconv.
--
Gary R. Van Sickle
Brewer. Patriot.