This one time, at band camp, Daniel B. said:
> Chris Waters wrote:
> > I am dependent on coffee, therefore coffee is a dependency of mine.
>
> Not that I can swear that I've never heard the usage you claim, but do
> you have a definition from a (professional) dictionary that documents
> that usa
Chris Waters wrote:
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> On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 08:57:16PM -0400, Daniel B. wrote:
>
> > Since the other package is not dependent on perl, then by your own
> > dictionary's definition, the other package is not a dependency of
> > perl. (Any divergence between us yet?)
>
> This is your point of
Andrew Suffield wrote:
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> On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 08:57:16PM -0400, Daniel B. wrote:
> > ...
> > Since the other package is not dependent on perl, then by your own
> > dictionary's definition, the other package is not a dependency of
> > perl. (Any divergence between us yet?)
>
> Here's where y
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 08:57:16PM -0400, Daniel B. wrote:
> Since the other package is not dependent on perl, then by your own
> dictionary's definition, the other package is not a dependency of
> perl. (Any divergence between us yet?)
This is your point of error. The dependency belongs to pe
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 08:57:16PM -0400, Daniel B. wrote:
> Then you consider "a dependency of perl" (as used above) to mean
> "a package on which perl depends," right?
>
> If so (sorry for all the conditionals), then:
>
>
> As you quoted, your dictionary says that "that which is dependent"
>
Scott:
Is ambiguity in the quoted part of the manual causing confusion?
First, does the second occurrence of "that package" in:
Only one package may contain the /usr/bin/perl binary and that package
must either be perl or a dependency of that package.
refer to perl? That is, do you agre
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