help needed on the gwyddion review

[Tom 'spot' Callaway]

On Sat, 2006-10-07 at 23:31 +0200, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 07, 2006 at 05:26:27PM -0400, Michel Salim wrote:
> > On 10/7/06, Patrice Dumas <pertusus at free.fr> wrote:
> > >Hello,
> > It would make sense (to me, anyway) to have the deprecated modules
> > packaged like normal, as you suggested, but perhaps with an ifdef.
> > Probably set them to be built by default for now?
> 
> They have to be packaged unconditionnally because the 
> gwyddion-plugin-examples need them.

Lemme make this clear.

If the user downloads something in your package/subpackage, and it
doesn't work because of a missing dependency (e.g. perl/python/ruby) not
present, then you screwed up. Don't assume your users have a sane
environment, or even that your users possess the faintest amount of
clue.

Not having necessary Requires for things is a blocker. 

~spot
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