27 Dec
2011
27 Dec
'11
4:49 p.m.
That's true, but if you are going to publish
build
instructions for every package, you need to specify your
base system. I don't follow what other distros are
doing, but ubuntu, for instance, doesn't distribute gtk1
apps like ghostview and xmms by default any more.
It's almost a Catch-22. You need a lot of
prerequisites to build Trinity, so you use a distro like
Debian or Ubuntu to get them. If you do that, why
build from source and not just get the binaries for Trinity
the same way?
It also gets really complicated. Why is ghostview
needed? The answer of course is kghostview, but you
don't need to build that. You either need to say that
app X needs prerequisite Y or say that Trinity needs
prerequisites Y1, Y2, ... Yn. The second way will not
help a lot of users.
Sure, when people build from scratch things get complicated. :)
I have good notes about what external packages are required to provide TDE full
functionality. The original KDE3 packages provided many hooks to other packages. The KDE3
packages still built when those external packages were not installed, but when those
packages were installed and the respective configure options were set, then the KDE3
packages took advantage of those hooks. Those hooks still exist in TDE.
That is the point of my original statement. Using the word dependency was inaccurate.
Expanded functionality is a better expression.
Your point about kghostview is interesting. Will kdegraphics build when ghostview is not
installed? I presume yes and that the configure messages will say as much. The Kghostview
package would not get built but I presume Kpdf would.
That pretty much is how I accumulated my notes about external packages. Those packages are
not dependencies, but external icing on the cake. I don't pretend to know what
additional functionality each of those hooks provide, I only know that when those external
packages are not installed I see related messages during the configure process (now cmake
with several packages).
I mentioned in a previous response I could provide those notes if requested. I suppose I
should just post them. :)
Darrell