Re: Dependencies on debuggers

2007-02-10 Thread Randy McMurchy
Alexander E. Patrakov wrote these words on 02/09/07 23:59 CST: > The issue is that sometimes Electric Fence is used not for testsuite, but > for some other purpose (e.g.: in order to allow the person who develops the > application to do better debugging). I wouldn't like it if one puts > debugg

Re: Dependencies on debuggers

2007-02-09 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Dan Nicholson wrote: > On 2/9/07, Alexander E. Patrakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Since debugging utilities are not needed for a regular user (i.e., not a >> developer) and only slow the application down (or take extra build time), I >> propose to completely stop mentioning them as dependencies

Re: Dependencies on debuggers

2007-02-09 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 2/9/07, Alexander E. Patrakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Since debugging utilities are not needed for a regular user (i.e., not a > developer) and only slow the application down (or take extra build time), I > propose to completely stop mentioning them as dependencies, unless they are > used

Dependencies on debuggers

2007-02-09 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Hello, some pages and blfs-dev posts mention optional dependencies of packages on such things as Valgrind and ElectricFence (see cURL, WvStreams, GStreamer and its plug-ins, FLAC, kdenetwork, CUPS, Samba, LAME, Dillo, GnuCash, Pilot-link, Ghaphviz, and ImageMagick pages). Some of such pages exp