Mojca Miklavec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 9:28 AM, Martin Costabel wrote: >> Mojca Miklavec wrote: >> [] >>> >>> Is there some way to avoid installing tetex? Please, let me know the >>> answer is yes? >> >> Not really. Unfortunately, Fink has not yet been able to muster the manpower >> necessary to bring its tex packages up to date. Apart from some people >> whining on the mailing lists and a couple of others showing noble >> intentions, no one has really done anything about it in the past two years. >> >> Your best bet IMHO would currently be to try some do-it-yourself hacking, >> namely modify the lilypond package so that it does not require those >> dependencies, and then cross your fingers and hope that it builds and works >> with the tex installation you happen to have. To do this, you would copy the >> file lilypond.info (or lilypond-devel.info if you want the very latest >> version; plus the corresponding *.patch file) from >> /sw/fink/dists/[un]stable/main/finkinfo/text/ to >> /sw/fink/dists/local/main/finkinfo/ and then edit it: >> >> - Change the Revision field to a higher revision, for example from 1005 to >> 1005.0 >> >> - Change the BuildDepends and Depends fields and remove the references to >> libkpathsea4, libkpathsea4-shlibs and tetex3-base. >> >> I am not betting that this will work, however. > > Thanks a lot for the generally very helpful hint how to modify > packages. It didn't complain about tetex, but it will now take a while > to install all the dependencies :) :) :) > >>> PS: Are there any tendencies to keep fink's packages a bit more >>> up-to-date >> >> This is the kind of question that doesn't win you any friends here. You >> might ponder about why you haven't upgraded your system to Leopard yet, for >> example. And what more up-to-date version of lilypond do you want, and which >> version does macports have? > > Lilypond is OK. > > I would like to see texlive replacing tetex and/or improved > system-tetex, and maybe some other packages (rails 2.1, tcl/tk 8.5 & > ruby/tk with aqua bindings, ...). I know - the best way to have it is > to make a package by myself, but I help where I know how to help and > where I'm at least approximately good at. With fink & compiling in > general I'm a bit lost.
tcltk has been 8.5 for a few weeks:) The best way to get others to volunteer to help is to make specific requests (make the task seem well-defined and doable instead of a blanket request for some unspecified list of packaegs). Try talking to the official maintainer of the packages you care about (we have day jobs, a gentle prodding helps us focus on those packages that others find useful and in need of work). Fink isn't a nebulous company where "the faceless engineering department" handles stuff:) dan -- Daniel Macks [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.netspace.org/~dmacks ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [email protected] http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.beginners
