On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 02:39:59PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > If we can ever settle on a suitable implementation, I would expect the > > savings of both human and CPU cycles to be sizeable, and worth the effort.
> If the problem is limited to local building of packages without their > documentation, maybe we can consider push forward the DEB_BUILD_OPTION > "nodoc". It doesn't solve the problem that anything needed for the build target has to be listed in Build-Depends instead of Build-Depends-Indep, so these packages need to be downloaded/installed unless you start hand-hacking around this in the package or in the build tools.[1] But then again, there's no metadata to tell you which build-dependencies you can ignore when you're not building docs, so you get to do this by trial and error, which rather neutralizes the intended time-saving benefits. Whereas Build-Depends-Indep was always intended to be used for precisely this, and only the "build-arch" detection problem prevents it being used this way. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org [1] Some document-processing packages (TeX) have quite intensive maintainer scripts, and are also non-negligible in size. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
