[PD-dev] Debian packaging: multi-object/single-file libraries or single-object/multiple-files libraries?

[Jonathan Wilkes]

I'm new to Debian and to linux, and have two noob questions:
1. If package A has an abstraction that depends on an object from 
package B, is package B automatically installed when I install package 
A?

2. If package A has a help patch that uses an object from package 
B, is package B automatically installed when I install package A?

-Jonathan

--- On Thu, 11/11/10, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at> wrote:

> From: Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>
> Subject: Re: [PD-dev] Debian packaging: multi-object/single-file libraries or single-object/multiple-files libraries?
> To: "Roman Haefeli" <reduzent at gmail.com>
> Cc: pd-dev at iem.at
> Date: Thursday, November 11, 2010, 10:30 PM
> 
> On Nov 11, 2010, at 3:54 PM, Roman Haefeli wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 2010-11-11 at 14:52 -0500, Hans-Christoph
> Steiner wrote:
> >> I'm fine with whatever you want to do with
> iemmatrix.  I haven't used
> >> it, so I don't really have much input on it.
> > 
> > So I feel there is consensus about packaging iemmatrix
> (only) as a
> > multi-object library.
> 
> I'd put it this way: I'm don't like ever packaging libs
> that way, but I don't use iemmatrix, so I won't stop you.
> :)
> 
> .hc
> 
> >> As for other libraries without aliases or
> hexloader needs (which is
> >> most), I see no reason why the Debian package
> should not be built with
> >> single_object.pd_linux.  With the libdir
> loader, it'll behave just
> >> like a multi-object.pd_linux library, and have the
> added bonus of
> >> working namespace prefixes.
> > 
> > Agreed.
> > 
> > Roman
> > 
> > 
> > 
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