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Re: [OF] Miscellaneous fails to build
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Re: [OF] Miscellaneous fails to build |
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Thu, 12 Jun 2014 11:36:03 +0200 |
On 12 Jun 2014, at 11:24, Juan Pablo Carbajal <address@hidden> wrote:
>> because "miscellaneous" is just a collection of, well ..., miscellaneous,
>> unrelated functions and some of them happen to need GNU units.
> Yes, but this is not the answer tot he question which is: Why does it
> has to be mandatory?
It does answer the question, indirectly.
There is no reason why the dependency should be mandatory.
But there is no real maintainer for the package
and the Makefile which considers a missing GNU units library a fatal error
was copied as-is from somwhere else and no-one took care of fixing it.
c.