[Mageia-dev] The Hydra Nature of the horde-* packages

Sat Aug 27 18:35:29 CEST 2011

On Saturday, August 27, 2011 09:31:45 am Thomas Spuhler wrote:
+> On Saturday, August 27, 2011 09:17:56 am Shlomi Fish wrote:
+> > Hi all,
+> > 
+> > I just rebuilt a few horde-* packages for which there were missing
+> > dependencies in http://pkgsubmit.mageia.org/data/missing-deps.i586.txt ,
+> > but now there are more that are not there:
+> > 
+> > horde-compress
+> > horde-datatree
+> > horde-history
+> > horde-secret
+> > horde-text-filter
+> > horde-token
+> > 
+> > This reminds me of the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lernaean_Hydra where
+> > if you cut one of its heads, then two grow instead.
+> > 
+> > How can we resolve all the horde dependencies for good? Why do they
+> > reappear? What is the underlying problem?
+> > 
+> > I'm CCing it to mageia-sysadm because it may be a Sys admin problem.
+> > 
+> > Regards,
+> > 
+> > 	Shlomi Fish
+> 
+> These will be removed when the whole horde tree is done. The new names
+> are:]
+> 
+> php-pear-Horde.....
+> 
+> I am working on them, but there are a lot of deps to be built.
+BTW, if you use http://check.mageia.org/dependencies.html
+you get a better picture of the deps.
+
+
+-- 
+Thomas
+