[Mageia-dev] The Hydra Nature of the horde-* packages

[Thomas Spuhler]

On Saturday, August 27, 2011 09:17:56 am Shlomi Fish wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I just rebuilt a few horde-* packages for which there were missing
> dependencies in http://pkgsubmit.mageia.org/data/missing-deps.i586.txt ,
> but now there are more that are not there:
> 
> horde-compress
> horde-datatree
> horde-history
> horde-secret
> horde-text-filter
> horde-token
> 
> This reminds me of the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lernaean_Hydra where if
> you cut one of its heads, then two grow instead.
> 
> How can we resolve all the horde dependencies for good? Why do they
> reappear? What is the underlying problem?
> 
> I'm CCing it to mageia-sysadm because it may be a Sys admin problem.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 	Shlomi Fish

These will be removed when the whole horde tree is done. The new names are:]

php-pear-Horde..... 

I am working on them, but there are a lot of deps to be built.

-- 
Thomas