Jim Radford wrote: > On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 12:14:29AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > >> I think archimport part needs to be split out just like its >> svn/cvs cousins, > > > I don't agree. The chance of running git-archimport and not having > arch installed is significantly less likely than the chance of not > noticing that the git-archimport program exists because it was moved > into a separate package that you didn't know you needed to install in > the first place. > How is this different for when svnimport and cvsimport was moved out? I don't think anyone expected people to run those commands by accident without noticing that they fail without the svn || cvs installed underneath. > The main reason I see for splitting cvs and email import out is the > non-standard dependencies, cvsps and perl(Email::Valid). Define "non-standard". String::ShellQuote isn't installed by default on Fedora Core 3 but is required by git-archimport. > While for > svn import it's to keep from requiring subversion-perl of everone who > installs git-core. This dependency is added automatically, so you > cannot easily just ignore it like you can in the arch/tla case. > It's fairly simple to provide a custom find-requires script. -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.ericsson@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlReceived on Fri Nov 11 07:31:34 2005
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