fewer dependencies
Friday, 14. November 2008, 02:37:11
A couple of minutes ago I received an email notification about #479427 being closed:
Being very interested on the subject I went to incoming.d.o and downloaded the -gecko and -webkit versions of epiphany, which were both listed in my packages with most dependencies top 20.
So yes, the number of dependencies dropped from 55 and 58 to 27 and 32, accordingly
Should dropping the number of useless dependencies be a RG for squeeze? we'll see.
Note: I'll update the post as soon as the i386 packages are built, because the number of package dependencies of my previous blog post were calculated from i386's Packages, not amd64's.
Oh, and of course many thanks to Josselin Mouette for working on the issue.
#479427: epiphany-gecko: please reduce the number of dependencies by avoiding linking to some libs
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* Pass --as-needed to LDFLAGS. Closes: #479427.
+ Introduce 99_ltmain_as-needed.patch.
Being very interested on the subject I went to incoming.d.o and downloaded the -gecko and -webkit versions of epiphany, which were both listed in my packages with most dependencies top 20.
$ countPkgsDeps.pl epiphany-*_2.24.1-1_amd64/control
epiphany-webkit:27
epiphany-gecko:32
So yes, the number of dependencies dropped from 55 and 58 to 27 and 32, accordingly
Should dropping the number of useless dependencies be a RG for squeeze? we'll see.
Note: I'll update the post as soon as the i386 packages are built, because the number of package dependencies of my previous blog post were calculated from i386's Packages, not amd64's.
Oh, and of course many thanks to Josselin Mouette for working on the issue.
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