Re: State of Perl-based database setup utilities for LedgerSMB 1.3

[Luke <..hidden..>]

On Fri, 27 May 2011, Adam Thompson wrote:

> Make (1) is already effectively a mandatory dependency due to all the 
> perl modules that must currently be installed, and possibly barring 
> OpenBSD with the recent work, I don't know of a single distro that 
> packages all the deps. (and, of course, make is required anyway for 
> OpenBSD ports) -Adam

Yes, but why should that be LSMB's problem?

If a distribution does manage to package everything, or someone releases a 
LSMB-perl-Dependencies.deb package thereby eliminating the requirement, 
why should it still be required?

The only justification for Make, or any other dependency, should not be 
"well, some platforms require it at the moment, so most people will 
probably have to have it.".

What is LSMB's, and only LSMB's, justification for needing it?  Let the 
distributions provide for themselves, in the way they choose to do so.  If 
that means that some users need Make, then so be it *for those users*.

Luke