[PPL-devel] Re: RFC: packaging the PPL for RedHat and Debian

[Michael Tautschnig]

>>> 
>>> This package would have to depend on the availability of all 5 Prolog
>>> systems and, in perspective also of OCaml, Java, Mathematica, ...
>>> We need another idea.
>>> 
>> Why does this interfaces-package depend on those systems - isn't it the 
>> other way round (if one intends to use PPL)? But ...
>
> You may need the language X development environment installed for
> installing the X-PPL interface.  If you package the interfaces X-PPL,
> Y-PPL and Z-PPL together you may end up with the situation where the
> user is only interested in X-PPL but is required to have also Y
> installed in order to install the single interfaces package.
> This is something we want to avoid right from the start.

I'm sorry, but I still don't get the point - why would I need the 
"language X development environment" to install a library? IMHO

- it might be required to build it -> build-depend or
- the library alone is of course not useful -> Suggests: ...

Would you mind giving an example - I just don't understand ...

Sorry,
Michael