[Slackbuilds-users] OPTIONAL field [was: qemu/spice-gtk and usbredir]

Andreas Guldstrand andreas.guldstrand at gmail.com
Fri Nov 4 07:01:45 UTC 2016


As the current maintainer of sbotools, I would approve of an OPTIONAL
field like the one proposed by Andrzej, with the "libass:ASS=yes|no"
bits.

Seems very useful and feasible to implement support for.

On 3 November 2016 at 19:52, Andrzej Telszewski <atelszewski at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've spent some time building packages now and although I used an automated
> tool (slackrepo to the rescue, thank you David!), I'm from the camp that
> reads README, trying to leave as little as possible to the fate.
>
> I'm using web browser to find the SlackBuild in question, read on and decide
> what to do. If an optional dependency is mentioned, I search for it, read
> on, and so on ;-)
>
> Searching for optional dependency is the most frustrating point.
> Sometimes there are many search results and you need to scan the list to
> find the one you need.
> Sometimes, the search filed leaves the keyword you entered there, so you
> have to erase it, before proceeding, etc.
>
> So what's the use for OPTIONAL field you ask?
>
> 1) PHP could parse it to give us direct link to the optional SlackBuild in
> question,
> 2) PHP could parse it to let us know about possible circular dependency.
>
>
> When it comes to automated tools, I'd say we need something more than just
> the package name in the OPTIONAL field.
> Probably something like that (ffmpeg for example) would be needed:
>
> OPTIONAL="libass:ASS=yes|no libbluray:BLURAY=yes|no"
>
> This would have to be thought through to make the best design decisions and
> the SlackBuilds would have to be standardized in one way or the other.
>
> But for the next iteration, having OPTIONAL field mentioning just the
> packages names and SBo website listing them next to REQUIRES, would be the
> step towards the better, faster and more secure world :-)
>
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Andrzej Telszewski
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