From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: Many perl package failures on core-updates Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2016 21:48:58 +0100 Message-ID: <87k2n2y7yd.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87lh7op4nd.fsf@netris.org> <87y4bo3phm.fsf@gnu.org> <20160119184112.GA15036@debian> <20160120122707.GA16730@debian.eduroam.u-bordeaux.fr> <87mvrzx5hz.fsf@gnu.org> <20160121204209.GC7969@debian> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51478) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aMMAD-0005Mg-4b for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Jan 2016 15:49:05 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aMMA9-0003FI-Uv for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Jan 2016 15:49:05 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20160121204209.GC7969@debian> (Andreas Enge's message of "Thu, 21 Jan 2016 21:42:09 +0100") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Andreas Enge Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Andreas Enge skribis: > On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 11:15:04PM +0100, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s wrote: >> I guess Graphviz was propagated so that =E2=80=98doxygen=E2=80=99 can pr= oduce class >> diagrams out-of-the-box (it probably looks for =E2=80=98dot=E2=80=99 in = $PATH.) So I >> would probably keep it propagated. > > I do not remember anymore, although it was me to do it (well, in April 20= 14). > 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 befo= re > 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=E2=80=99s a risk of Doxygen being effectively =E2=80= =9Cbroken by default=E2=80=9D if, as I presume, many programs expect it to be able to generate PNGs for class diagrams. I=E2=80=99m chatting, but again, I haven=E2=80=99t actually tried. :-) Ludo=E2=80=99.