Re: gnulib-tool dependency printing

[Eric Blake]

On 03/22/2011 01:08 PM, Simon Josefsson wrote:
> The output below is printed when I run 'gnulib-tool --add-import'.  Look
> carefully at it.  For example it gives the impression that 'gperf' and
> 'iconv' are dependencies of 'git-version-gen' which seems bogus.

I don't get that impression.  Rather, the list is sorted alphabetically,
with no bearing on dependency chains other than that explicitly
requested modules appear with less indentation.

> Or am I reading the output incorrectly?  I haven't looked at the code
> yet because I'm not sure I understand what is intended here.  Generally,
> I think it would be nice to print the modules requested (the list above)
> in the first indentation, and the recursive dependencies of that module
> in second indentation (except for dependencies of modules already
> listed, to avoid circular dependencies).

Maybe listing the dependency of each module would be nicer than the
current alphabetic list, but I'm not bothered by it enough to write the
patch myself.

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