Re: [be] Setting up a remote repository returns an error

[Neil Mayhew]

On 2011-07-08 23:14, Teus Benschop wrote:
> The package fails to configure if git is not present, because the 
> presence of git is
> felt to be crucial for bibledit operation.

Although this is inappropriate if the application isn't going to run on 
the same machine that it's being built on. Requiring git to build it is 
unnecessary, and doesn't ensure it will be present on the machine when 
the application is run. Build dependencies should be exactly that.

The number of actual users who are going to build be from source in 
order to run it on their own machine is small compared to the number of 
techies who will want to build it from source for one reason or another. 
Building an Ubuntu package, for example, is done in a minimal chroot 
environment that then brings in the build dependencies of the package, 
and git brings in a huge number of dependent packages that aren't used 
in the build and just slow things down.

--Neil