[Fink-devel] Deep dependencies in tcl

[Jose' Cruanyes]

Hi all

I'm trying to install a package, (postgresql but it is not the problem) that depends on other packages (python, tcltk and others)
these packages are fat ones and depends in a huge list of other, leading to an exploding list of packages to be installed

ie
postgresql (optionally) needs tcl-dev

in debian tcl-dev depends on
tcl that depends on libc6
libc6-dev that depends on libc6
total 3 tiny packages to install

in fink there's not tcl-dev, it's included in tcltk-dev
tcltk has as the name says tk included that depends on x11
leading me to install Xfree86 just to add tcl support to postgresql

a similar problem is seen in python.

I think we have to add greater granularity to those basic packages, I know almost anyone with fink has X installed, and that it's too much effort to split and maintain packages, more now than we have to put 0.5 out. but better do things well.

in the meantime I've modified the postgres package to avoid use tcl.


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