Re: Including dependencies

[Jens Bech Madsen <jbm oncable dk>]

On Sun, 2003-09-07 at 08:13, Jerry Talkington wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 06:52:56AM +0200, Jens Bech Madsen wrote:
> > On Sun, 2003-09-07 at 00:55, Jerry Talkington wrote:
> > > Howdy!
> > > 
> > > Are there any plans on including all of the reqired dependencies (i.e.
> > > becoming completely self sufficient,) or has this been decided against?
> > 
> > How far do you want to take it? XFree86? gcc? glibc? kernel?
> 
> I'm talking more about things that are included in a GNU system, but not
> a *nix.

What things are missing? The autotools are already there as far as I can
tell, though no garballs depend on it.

Looking the current list of required things apart from the "sane
toolchain":

libpng3-dev
libjpeg-dev
libtiff-dev
libncurses5-dev
xlibs-dev
xutils (for xmkmf, required by Xrender)
libpopt-dev
libdb3-dev (GConf)
libbz2-dev, zlib1g-dev (gnome-vfs, others)
libexpat1-dev
libsmbclient-dev (for gnome-vfs-extras)
libhermes-dev (for gstreamer, if you want it to do video at all)
docbook-xml (Docbook DTD 4.1.2) + docbook-xsl (Docbook XSL Stylesheets)

which of these would you like included?

Explicitly making the garballs depend on the extra things make it a
hassle for the people who already have the stuff installed system wide.
Maybe just put them in the bootstrap directory and let people manually
add the ones they need/want?

Or maybe just maintain your own garballs. I need aspell in a newer
version, so I have a garball for that in my own garnome directory. Same
with a few other things which aren't available but are needed.

More garballs means more to keep up-to-date for the maintainer.



Cheers,
Jens