[Slackbuilds-users] Updates - 20230128.1

[Tonus]

Hi all

I would like to see the source addition for google-go-lang.
Seems not so cumbersome for these builds and would permit long queues to build over night (still have an old laptop to compile and run stuff, no desktop).

Just my 2c

Regards 

Le 30 janvier 2023 18:52:38 GMT+01:00, "B. Watson" <urchlay at slackware.uk> a écrit :
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>On Mon, 30 Jan 2023, Erich Ritz via SlackBuilds-users wrote:
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>> Bingo.  Multiple packages that depend on java pick a version to put
>> in REQUIRES but then the README notes that you can optionally use a
>> different version.  If the SlackBuild tries to source the version in
>> REQUIRES it will fail hard.
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>Java is special case (there are too many of them). I did have to write
>more complex code than I wanted for that. But my other example (qt5 on
>Slackware 14.2) was an example of something that Just Worked.
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>> We should be really careful adding "helpful" automation.  There is
>> always a balance to be struck.  Where does it end?  Should every
>> package do an explicit check for all of its dependencies to give
>> a helpful error message?  How robust should that be to different
>> versions of dependencies?  How many support requests are there that
>> end up being the user didn't install all dependencies?
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>You're arguing against stuff I didn't actually propose.
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>> Note that some tools (e.g. slackrepo) take care to source the
>> appropriate profile scripts automatically during the build.  So for
>> me personally this is a non-issue, which is why I'm arguing against
>> adding complexity to the SlackBuilds themselves.
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>A single "source /path/to/file" is not much complexity.
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>Also, users don't use slackrepo, they use sbopkg and sbotools.
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