Ticket #374 (closed task: fixed)
clean up redundancies in debathena-thirdparty
| Reported by: | geofft | Owned by: | kaduk |
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| Priority: | low | Milestone: | Current Semester |
| Component: | -- | Keywords: | |
| Cc: | alexp | Fixed in version: | |
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Description
This is a separate issue from removing unwanted packages from debathena-thirdparty: there are a couple of cases in which our metapackages depend on one package and a couple of that package's dependencies, which can be simplified. -dev packages and their non-dev library partners are a good example of this. This should not be a change in practical function of the package.
There are also a couple of cases in which our metapackages depend on one package and a couple of that package's recommendations: for instance, we could replace (almost?) all of the boost packages in thirdparty-libraries with just libboost-dev. This would be a significant cleanup, but a slight functional change. It's worth considering if there are reasons to keep these packages as hard dependencies; one technical reason to do so is that recommendations are never resatisfied if they happen not to be satisfied when the package is first installed (see #373). See that ticket and also #372 for discussion of making everything in -thirdparty recommendations, which, if implementable, would make this option clearly okay.
Change History
comment:2 Changed 14 years ago by jdreed
- Milestone changed from Summer 2010 (Lucid Deploy) to Fall 2010
comment:5 follow-up: ↓ 6 Changed 12 years ago by jdreed
- Status changed from assigned to development
I'm fairly certain I did this in #1138. If anyone disagrees, please specifically list the remaining redundant packages. In some cases, we can depend on -dev pulling in -lib packages, in other cases, there is no dependency.
comment:6 in reply to: ↑ 5 Changed 12 years ago by kaduk
Replying to jdreed:
I'm fairly certain I did this in #1138. If anyone disagrees, please specifically list the remaining redundant packages. In some cases, we can depend on -dev pulling in -lib packages, in other cases, there is no dependency.
Hmm, it looks like I lost my working copy where I had been dinking with this, due to merge conflicts.
My notes say that amaya (and -doc) is gone as of jaunty [thirdparty-information], and abiword-plugins-gnome is hardy-only [thirdparty-text].
I may still have some of the scripts/one-liners I came up with when I was more actively working on this ticket stashed on thirdparty-collapser.xvm.mit.edu
