On 19/04/18 03:37, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: [...] > anyone can get write access. sign up an account there. it's a wiki.
I'm not a developer, just an end user, so I don't think I would be in any remote way qualified to add anything myself. > but please note that that page is GENERIC. it doesn't cover any special > distro. My error: I assumed that most distros would use the same names. > we cant have one generic page magically just work on every distro. No indeed, not as things stand. One page each for the distros I test might be achievable. > if you looked top-right there is a list of distro specific install pages with > more specialist instructions per distro. again - a wiki. can be updated by > users of that distro as it changes over time. Right. I missed that completely > did you try install ninja-build on its own and see what version it was? No, I just omitted it from the list, and it got included as a dependency on meson, so it all installed. Haven't had time to do anything with it yet though. > perhaps its too old? did you customize the pkg repo urls No, everything is stock. The only addition was Niko's repo for E and Terminology, now removed. > perhaps mint is just broken if it can't install > its own pkgs dependencies if everything you have is stock... No, just the naming. Mint has no such animal as ninja-build, apparently, just plain ninja, and it gets installed along with meson. > but that'd be a > pretty horrible break there, so my suspects are custom pkg repos of your own > breaking up dependencies somehow... It would be pretty bad, but I don't do custom pkg repos, fortunately. If what I need can't be provided from stock, I switch Linux distro to one that can (why I ditched Xubuntu for Mint). Like I said: I'm an end user — I don't have the freedom to experiment at the moment; the best I can do right now is to donate to the support of a distro. When I retire things will be different, I hope — time to experiment and contribute :-) ///Peter ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list enlightenment-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users