[cap-talk] Application dependencies (was More Heresy: ACLs not inherently bad)

David-Sarah Hopwood david.hopwood at industrial-designers.co.uk
Sat Sep 13 22:28:59 CDT 2008


Mark Miller wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 7:39 PM, David-Sarah Hopwood <
> david.hopwood at industrial-designers.co.uk> wrote:
> 
>> (It is still possible to declare unnecessary dependencies. But there is
>> an incentive not to since that will cause the app to fail to install on
>> more machines. Also, it is easy for an automated tool to detect
>> declared dependencies that are not used on a test run.)
> 
> Dependency coverage checking.

That's a good name, thanks. I'm more likely to remember having had this idea
now that you have named it.

-- 
David-Sarah Hopwood



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