[haiku-development] Re: OptionalPackages -- how to properly package its dependencies

  • From: Matt Madia <mattmadia@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 00:13:05 +0000

On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 11:11 PM, scott mc <scottmc2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> ATM AboutSystem does not check for duplicate package descriptions. If that
>> can happen with the existing optional packages, we need to handle it in
>> AboutSystem.
>>
>> CU, Ingo
>>
>
> I believe that that may be the case, as both vlc and netsurf may contain
> dupes if both are installed, but it hasn't shown up yet as we haven't put
> more than one package in an .OptionalPackageDecription file yet have we?
> But this should at least be marked as a TODO for now so we don't forget to
> add a check for dupes.
> -scottmc

filed as http://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/3930
I also created a new component Applications/AboutSystem.

Ingo, for now I've assigned you as the default owner. Please let me
know if someone else should be the owner.

--mmadia

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