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Re: Many perl package failures on core-updates
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Ludovic Courtès |
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Re: Many perl package failures on core-updates |
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Thu, 21 Jan 2016 21:48:58 +0100 |
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Andreas Enge <address@hidden> skribis:
> On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 11:15:04PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> I guess Graphviz was propagated so that ‘doxygen’ can produce class
>> diagrams out-of-the-box (it probably looks for ‘dot’ in $PATH.) So I
>> would probably keep it propagated.
>
> I do not remember anymore, although it was me to do it (well, in April 2014).
> At some point in time doxygen depended on graphviz, then the dependency
> was dropped according to the changelog on the web site. But this was before
> I added it, so you may be right. Does it have any impact on packages
> that depend on doxygen?
Dunno.
> I wonder if this is not a case where we should leave it to the user to
> install or not the additional program, since doxygen should still be
> functional without this feature?
Could be. OTOH, there’s a risk of Doxygen being effectively “broken by
default” if, as I presume, many programs expect it to be able to
generate PNGs for class diagrams.
I’m chatting, but again, I haven’t actually tried. :-)
Ludo’.
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- Re: Many perl package failures on core-updates, Ludovic Courtès, 2016/01/20
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