On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 6:25 PM, Lauri T. Aarnio <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Oct 21, 2011, at 4:36 PM, ext Jeremiah Foster wrote: > >> On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 3:05 PM, Carsten Munk <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> 1) Source package build-depends on, random example, perl-SSLeay, which >>> is a perl extension that's built with native code >> >> That is really a corner case. Most perl modules don't use XS (what you >> refer to as "native code") and the perl-SSLeay module has been a >> particular problem over the years because it has some pretty gnarly >> dependencies. You won't see this problem with most of the perl modules >> in MeeGo for example. > > Unfortunately corner cases matter, too. "Most" is not enough, if there are > hundreds or thousands of packets to compile.
A corner case is not "most", it is usually a singleton or a handful. I still think this is a remarkable example of a corner case, a perl module with XS that is a build dependency because it provides an SSL library! Regards, Jeremiah _______________________________________________ MeeGo-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev http://wiki.meego.com/Mailing_list_guidelines
