Randy McMurchy wrote:
Dan Nicholson wrote these words on 03/03/06 08:25 CST:
My opinion is that it is more important to satisfy as many of the
requisites for the test suites as possible. If that means something
needs to be out of alphabetical order, then so be it.
The whole purpose of this change is so that LFS can legitimately
describe, and explain, why the order is the way is.
If saying that this is before that and that is before this because
it is necessary to fulfill requirements of foo's test suite, then
to me that is a legitimate explanation of why the order is the way
it is.
In fact, keeping it alphabetical, for no other reason that to keep
it alphabetical, when this breaks (or affords less quality of) test
suites, is simply wrong. Of course, just IMHO. But that is what you
were asking for.
Nobody is suggesting that everything be left in alphabetical order "just
because" - packages are only put in alphabetical order when the order
otherwise doesn't matter - satisfying all dependencies and documenting
the reasons for the build order has *always* had priority over
alphabetizing the order. Dan was just asking about the order of these
particular packages specifically because of the fact that they have
circular dependencies on each other. Do you have any opinion on it,
other than to needlessly continue to harp about the "alphabetical" aspect?
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