this is no feature request, only an idea. could it not be nice, to have some interactive feedback when trying to run commands (that is, programs) provided through fink, but currently not installed? which could be provided by shell (or perl) placeholders instead of the real binaries.
assumption: somebody has fink, but a rather basic installation. hears about a command "convert", tries it out / needs it. not there => message: "the package imagemagick is required to execute the command "convert". do you want to download and compile the sourcecode of the program and it's dependencies (<list of dependencies>)? ... could offer also binary download etc. main problem presumably would be the check for non-fink installations (would be no problem if the fink-bin directory would be the guaranteed last in the search path, but...). one can argue about the lack of additional hard-core functionality; but i would find such an option rather friendly. please be nice in your comments ;-) michael. Dr. Michael Baudis Dept. of Pathology Stanford Medical School 300 Pasteur Drive Stanford, CA 94305-5324 U.S.A. [EMAIL PROTECTED] fon: ++1 (650) 723 5340 fax: ++1 (650) 498 6222 _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
