On Sun, May 23, 1999 at 03:07:19AM +0300, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: > > Some of these can be detected automatically (#5 could be discovered with a > > grep on debian/rules, for example), but some can't. > > So, what's the problem? We don't autodetect all of binary dependencies > either. Maintainers generally know what they need to build their packages; > it should be trivial for them to list the dependencies explicitly! > > Besides, if source dependencies were completely autodetectable, we wouldn't > need them.
Agreed. We don't need any magic, just a common location for that useful piece of information. -- enJoy -*/\*- http://jagor.srce.hr/~jrodin/