On Thu, 2017-03-09 at 10:19 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > > I think this would be a great way of introducing spurious bugs in our > distribution from people who don't happen to read the README file and > miss > dependencies they actually need because they're used to Debian > properly > picking up shared library dependencies and to the dependencies of any > given package being fully self-contained. Both of which, I should > add, > are major *features* of our distribution that many of us have worked > very > hard to achieve. I'm opposed. >
Can we just clarify - in the setup that Ian proposed, a "normal" user would have experience no different to now (except for less bloat); package maintainers and those using -dev libs are the ones who would need to read those docs. Package maintainers in order to ensure they set the correct deps on their packages, and -dev package users to ensure they are aware of which features of a library need extra packages installed in order to function. Cheers, Nick -- Nick Phillips / nick.phill...@otago.ac.nz / 03 479 4195 # These statements are mine, not those of the University of Otago
