HAL 0.5.10

[Gabriel C]

Danny Kukawka wrote:
> On Montag, 15. Oktober 2007, Sjoerd Simons wrote:
>> On Sun, Oct 14, 2007 at 02:57:49PM +0200, Danny Kukawka wrote:
> [...]
>>> The hal-info package need a HAL >= 0.5.10 due to new fdi-directives
>>> (*_outof) which wouldn't work with older HAL versions. It make no sense
>>> to use this hal-info version with hal =< 0.5.10 since you would lose many
>>> of the fdi-rules.
>> Still having configure doing check for things that only matter at runtime
>> is a bad practise IMHO. A warning instead of abort would be okay. But with
>> the current check, we can't create the hal-info packages without hal, which
>> is quite annoying.
> 
> This is nothing new. You couldn't build all features of the package (e.g. 
> KillSwitch feature) without HAL before. It make simply no sense to build 
> hal-info for systems with older HAL versions. Do you have a build system 
> without minimal install which didn't contain HAL? 

Is not the point. You just create not needed circular depends with that.

hal-info *depends* on hal while hal need hal-info as a runtime depend.
Is really a pain to maintain these packages this way.

You should let that decision up to the users and distros on 
whatever they want to build use and how. 

A 'WARNING' is ok here but a error , really.

> 
> Danny

Regards,

Gabriel