On samedi 28 octobre 2017 07:27:39 CEST Colin Adams wrote: > Well that's telling you the opposite - your package manager is determining > to install lensfun along with darktable - a sensible decision. > To elaborate a little bit: If you install e.g. Darktable in the normal way for your system, you use a package manager. The package manager does not work with the source code of the different programs, but with compiled packages. The maintainers of the system (e.g. Ubuntu, OpenSuse, Redhat, ...) have indicated in the package metadata that certain other packages must be present on your system as well. If such a package is missing/too old, it will be installed/updated automatically by the package manager. Typically, those are libraries which are not maintained by the same group as the main program you want to install. (or are logically separate parts, like the lensfun liblensfun-data and liblensfun0: having a separate package for the data allows separate update of the lens data).
In the case of darktable on your system, it looks like lensfun and openjp are registered as requirements (i.e. packages Darktable depends on), along with a number of others, some of which were present already on your system, like the system C and C++ libraries. Most package managers provide a way to see all dependencies. > On Fri, 27 Oct 2017 at 20:19 Peter Cripps <pe...@petercripps.com> wrote: > > It seems to me that the latest version of darktable (2.5.5) includes > > installation of lensfun. Here's an extract from the terminal readout > > > > during installation: > > > The following NEW packages will be installed: > > > darktable liblensfun-data liblensfun0 libopenjp2-7 > > > > Later on in the process, I see unpacking and setting up of the lensfun > > files. ____________________________________________________________________________ darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to darktable-user+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org
