how file dependencies can get you in trouble

Posted Feb 21, 2007 22:42 UTC (Wed) by branden (guest, #7029)
In reply to: Joey Hess by ldo
Parent article: ESR's goodbye note

Having a file dependency on /usr/bin/make when you're going to rely on GNU extensions to Make (and there are several), is a bad idea.

An even better example is when file objects have the same name but are completely different applications. Think of firebird, for example.

Posted Feb 22, 2007 5:44 UTC (Thu) by bojan (subscriber, #14302) [Link]

That's why you can specify explicit packages, if required.