On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 3:37 PM, Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx> wrote: [...] >I am aware that it may sound like I mean we should put everything into > >the Haiku tree and have no external packages at all. I don't think > >that's a good idea either, but I specifically wonder about those > >build-dependency packages. > > Keeping them in the tree is a mess IMO. These packages are usually also > needed as dependencies of other packages, so we end up having to reproduce > their build systems' installation procedure and once we go PM even build > packages for them from out of our tree. > Would it be possible to modify the build system to grab and build a package from a haikuport instead of grabbing a pre-build binary since the haikuport package already "reproduce[s[ their build systems' installation procedure" in the bep file and is already "out of tree"? A few more questions: What relation does current build system have to haikuports if any? What relation does haikuports have to the future proposed package management system if any?