At 8:48 Uhr -0500 08.02.2002, David R. Morrison wrote: >Do we have a mechanism for specifying that 4.2 is installed, not 4.1? >Even if the user has installed system-xfree86?
There is no easy way to do this. The system-xfree86 package just can't reflect the version of XFree86 actually installed. >The reason I ask is that there are several changes in xfree86 which we >are either relying on, or could rely on. 4.2 includes libGL, for example. >(It is not clear what the role of the mesa package should be at this >point.) If you need libgl, you should have a "Depends: libgl". Period. -rootless has this. For system-xfree86, you have to install system-libgl, too. > And as a future thing, 4.2 includes freetype2 which fink could >take advantage of. I am not sure we should do that. What exactly would we gain? Is their version of freetype providing any additional features? >There have been several threads on fink-users along the lines: package >ddd (or geomview, or others) doesn't work, yes I updated to 4.2, no >I didn't update lesstif yet... and then once they update the appropriate >things from unstable, all works. We should find a way to formalize this. We have made new revisions of lesstif and ddd, xgeomview etc. - we would move those into stable at the same time as xfree86 of course. Users who only update xfree86 but not e.g. ddd will have problems. However, there is simply no way I can envision to prevent this, except adding a "Conflicts: lesstif (<=XYZ)" to XFree86 - and in fact, we might want to do that... Comments? Max -- ----------------------------------------------- Max Horn Software Developer email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> phone: (+49) 6151-494890 _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
