Re: [gpsd-dev] Planning a 3.11 snap release

[Mike Frysinger]

On Tuesday 26 November 2013 02:47:00 Gary E. Miller wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Nov 2013 00:14:01 -0500 Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > On Monday 25 November 2013 21:57:31 Gary E. Miller wrote:
> > > On Sun, 24 Nov 2013 09:12:02 -0500 Greg Troxel wrote:
> > > > I think fetching things at build time is basically broken.
> > > 
> > > A lot of packages fetch at build time
> > 
> > err, what now ?  no they don't.  it's an oddity to be discouraged.
> 
> Discouraged?  Not the place of gpsd to fly in the face of convention.
> 
> Asterisk does this.  Docbook does this.  I'll start a list, but I
> already know it is long.  License restrictions make this the only option
> for a lot of packages.

if Asterisk is your shining build example, then you might have to rethink your 
position :).

i'm not sure what you mean about docbook, but if you mean generally fetching 
unknown DTD's and such from the network, then that is done when the DTD's 
aren't already found locally.  a local db is used to look up things first.

distros go out of their way to fix this.  when upstream packages try adding 
fetch logic, then it's more hassle for us to clean up their craziness.
-mike

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