Building from source packages
Andrew Schulman
schulman.andrew@epa.gov
Fri May 13 19:44:00 GMT 2016
> * a few packages mistakenly use DEPENDS
>
> A few packages mistakenly use DEPENDS rather than DEPEND, which is
> silently ignored
I'm surprised none of them are mine. It confuses me every time that I have to
use REQUIRES, but DEPEND instead of DEPENDS. I have to go look it up again once
or twice a month.
To minimize the cognitive load on maintainers' brains, I humbly propose that
cygport honor both REQUIRE and REQUIRES, and DEPEND and DEPENDS.
Or it that's too ugly, make them both of the same form, i.e. REQUIRE and DEPEND.
A one-time backwards-incompatible change that would make things easier in the
future.
Andrew
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