At 13:57 Uhr -0400 15.05.2002, David R. Morrison wrote: >I'm passing on a request from one of our users (made in correspsondence >about a bug he reported). He uses dselect, and tried to install some >things which are available as binaries, but they depend on other things >which are not available as binaries. Is there any way we can add something >to dselect to communicate this fact to the user? Or should we be drastic >and only distribute binaries when all of the dependencies are also >available as binaries?
I think there is no way to add such a comment. The problem is present e.g. for tex, as one of the tex packages is not in the bindist, but most others are, which of course is not very nice :-/ I don't know of a way to add such a message to dselect either, but I doubt it. Cheers, Max -- ----------------------------------------------- Max Horn Software Developer email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> phone: (+49) 6151-494890 _______________________________________________________________ Have big pipes? SourceForge.net is looking for download mirrors. We supply the hardware. You get the recognition. Email Us: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
