Squeak as Linux and other threads

Stephen Pair stephen at pairhome.net
Thu May 22 13:05:59 UTC 2003


Stephan B.Wessels wrote:

>
> On Thursday, May 22, 2003, at 07:10 AM, Stephen Pair wrote:
>
>> goran.krampe at bluefish.se wrote:
>>
>>> Dependencies:
>>> - I know how Debian works and I am gladly borrowing ideas from them.
>>> BUT... the dependency model that I am planning is different. Simpler 
>>> and
>>> IMHO more suitable for our needs. Doing things like have prereqs that
>>> says "version >= 0.9" or stuff like that I personally do not like
>>
>>
>> Hooray!!!  There is absolutely no need for such constructs in 
>> prerequisites...I am so glad to hear you say that.
>
>
> Stephen,
>
> I may be walking in on a thread a little late here, but my first 
> reaction is "Are you sure about that"?  I guess what you are 
> advocating is that the latest version of any prerequisite would be 
> loaded regardless if it is already loaded.
>
> Perhaps I miss something?
>
>  - Steve 


No, that's not what I'm advocating...what I'm advocating is that 
pre-requisites need only to be declared...it's the responsiblity of 
whatever is loading a given package to determine what to do about those 
prerequisites.

- Stephen



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