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Re: [64bit] Biber packaging questions


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.

Ken


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