On Wed, 13 Apr 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Might also have somewhere statements that if you have installed > package ABC (GNOME), package XYZ has met all of its required packages. > > John Gnew >
Except, that _optional_ packages are another matter entirely. I used to ignore sound packages because I didn't have the hardware. Now that I've got the hardware, there is a veritable cats-cradle of optional dependencies for gnome and kde - my first thought was to stick sound and video stuff in very early on (so I could play local files as soon as possible), until I found an optional (I think) dependency on X in one of the ogg dependencies. We don't seem to be a lot closer to listing what the optional dependencies will do. Some seem fairly obvious, others not. Also, some of the gnome applications will happily compile without certain packages, but if the packages aren't present at run time the features will be broken (e.g. 'help' or 'about' functions in e.g. gnumeric can require yelp and "epiphany"). Ken -- das eine Mal als Trag�die, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
