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

[Shlomi Fish]

Hi Thomas,

On Sat, 27 Aug 2011 09:31:45 -0700
Thomas Spuhler <thomas at btspuhler.com> wrote:

> 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.
> 

I don't understand exactly how these things are related? Why have we been
having lots of broken horde-* dependencies for a long while? Why do horde-*
packages disappear? Can we discuss this on IRC? I am "rindolf" there.

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

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