Evan Chaney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Hi. I have two beginners questions. > > 1) What exactly is Fink doing when it asks me to select an alternative > for a virtual dependency? What is a virtual dependency?
Let's say a package "foo" needs the /sw/bin/wget command. In fink, there are two packages that install it (wget and wget-ssl), so foo states that it depends on "wget or wget-ssl". If either one is installed, then that dependency is satisfied. But if neither is, fink stops and asks which one you want to install to satisfy that dependency. > 2) If Python is bundled in with every copy of Mac OS X sold, why isn't > there a placeholder package for Python? A full version of python that includes headers and all other tools needed to compile other python modules has not always been bundled with OS X. dan -- Daniel Macks [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.netspace.org/~dmacks ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: The Robotic Monkeys at ThinkGeek For a limited time only, get FREE Ground shipping on all orders of $35 or more. Hurry up and shop folks, this offer expires April 30th! http://www.thinkgeek.com/freeshipping/?cpg=12297 _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
