[Popcon-developers] popcon for smolt quickhack

[Sebastian Pipping]

Bill Allombert wrote:
> Much less: perl-base is 'Essential: yes', so it is installed on every system
> anyway, and it only depends on libc6 and dpkg. /usr/bin/perl is part of
> perl-base, not of perl, so the perl package is not touched when popcon is run.

I see.


> But of course, a cross-distribution system should probably be written
> in POSIX sh and C using only glibc.

I don't agree about the "of course" part :-)


>> Also, why all of python2.4, python2.5, python2.6, not just one of them?
> 
> /usr/bin/python is a symlink to python2.4 on etch and to python2.5 on
> lenny, so etch users of popcon-python would use python2.4 and lenny users
> python2.5 so the number for python2.4 would be all the etch users+the number of
> lenny users actually using python2.4. Idem for the dependencies of python2.4: 
> libbz2-1.0, libdb4.5, libncursesw5, libreadline5, libssl0.9.8, mime-support.

Thanks for your explanation.

You do have a point but I wonder if these dependencies should stand in
our way.  It seems to me that we are talking about less than 1% of the
packages in the tree here.



Sebastian