RFC: generate automatic setup.hint with g-b-s?

[Reini Urban]

Igor Pechtchanski schrieb:
> On Thu, 14 Oct 2004, Reini Urban wrote:
>>Gerrit P. Haase schrieb:
>>
>>>Am Mittwoch, 13. Oktober 2004 um 19:02 schriebst du:
>>>
>>>>On Wed, 13 Oct 2004, Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>Christopher schrieb:
>>>>>
>>>>>>upset: *** warning package libsasl2 requires non-existent package libdb42
>>>>>>upset: *** warning package libsasl2-devel requires non-existent package libdb42
>>>>>
>>>>>Has someone a g-b-s function handy that creates a setup.hint template
>>>>>from the packagename and the depend(encies) output?
>>>
>>>>I doubt it.  Care to write one?  In fact, perhaps we should add a
>>>>setup.hint template file ("generic-setup.hint"?), and use that
>>>>instead of embedding the setup.hint contents into the g-b-s...
>>>
>>>Well, just thought about it, it could be similar to the depend()
>>>function, just print out the dependcies in one line without versions,
>>>so I could copy and paste it, that would be sufficient (for the
>>>beginning), ideally it could be done in the depend() function as well,
>>>since we already have the data, so why not provide different formats?
>>
>>requires is already in my patch I posted last week.
> 
> You mean, that big one with lots of stuff in it?  Any plans to split it?

plans: sure. time: not yet.

postgresql and phpwiki need all my attention right now.
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