Dependency loops considered harmful?

[Patrice Dumas]

On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 01:31:56PM -0500, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
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> ...which is, in a sense, the real problem. The issue as I see it is that  
> rolling an RPM takes a *lot* more time and effort than 'make install',  
> especially with CMake (2.6 does /very/ fast installs). It would be  
> REALLY GOOD to install everything as an rpm (not least because this  
> would clean up cruft from old builds!), but it needs to be fast, and it  
> needs to be do-able without using root privilege. Otherwise I think the  
> costs will outweigh the benefits for a lot of people.

In many situations rolling a rpm doesn't make sense. An easy example is
numerical models. You compile it, run it and there is absolutely no reason 
to make it a package.

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Pat