On Debian and Fedora experiences

Nicolas Mailhot nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net
Tue Dec 5 09:26:56 UTC 2006


Le Lun 4 décembre 2006 22:48, Chris Weyl a écrit :
> one thing I've been wanting for a while is a way to designate a
> buildrequires as "optional."  There are many perl packages that have
> builddeps that are only required for the package tests, not the actual
> build part.

Having dedicated/separate dependencies for the test section would
certainly help. Making optional deps that modify the end-result (built
binaries), OTOH, is the way to QA hell.

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot




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