What is the fink group's policy on dependencies? Several important packages seem to specify an unnecessarily large number of dependencies, none of which are essential to either compile or make effective use of it.
For example, the libxml2 package has build dependencies of gtk-doc, python, db3, readline, gdbm, gmp, expat, tcltk-dev. Are all these really necessary? I edited the .info file and built the package with /none/ of these dependencies; it seems to work fine. Why do I need to install python (and X11!) to get an XML library? (Especially since--in this not uncommon case--the configure file will itself determine if python is installed, and compile relevant python extensions if it is.) Why do I need expat, a competing XML library?! Whilst I'd like to have a full fink distribution on my machine I don't have that much diskspace. I'd also prefer to not clutter it up with things I don't need, and would rather not spend time compiling. --Michael * * * http://beebo.org ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
