Re: RFC 289 (v1) Generate module dependencies easily

[email protected] (Michael G Schwern) Sat, 1 Sep 2001 16:18:45 -0400

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Message-ID	<20010901161845.T606@blackrider>

On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 04:08:18PM -0700, Dave Storrs wrote:
> How would this handle code and/or packages that are generated at run
> time?  Or would that be another caveat?

If a piece of code depends on a package it generates itself... doesn't
sound like much of a dependency.

Anyhow, RFC 289 (v2) already states:

    Even if the dependency checker could not detect runtime dependencies,
    it would still be damn useful.

which pretty much sums it up.


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