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Re: gnulib-tool dependency printing
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Bruno Haible |
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Re: gnulib-tool dependency printing |
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Tue, 22 Mar 2011 21:01:23 +0100 |
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Eric Blake wrote:
> the list is sorted alphabetically,
> with no bearing on dependency chains other than that explicitly
> requested modules appear with less indentation.
Yes, that's how it's done.
> Maybe listing the dependency of each module would be nicer than the
> current alphabetic list
Listing the dependencies of each module would lead to a much bigger output
(think of how often 'stdint' or 'unistd' would occur...); this is not what
most users want. I think we should be content to list every module just once.
This indentation feature was the outcome of this discussion:
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2010-06/msg00132.html>
Do you have a better idea for presenting the specified and the dependent
modules in a lightweight way?
Bruno
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