I can do it. Should it go in the FAQ (as a preemptive strike) or elsewhere?
On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 10:07, David R. Morrison wrote: > Here's something which I wish we were documenting properly. > > Briefly, there are a handful of packages which exist in the stable tree, > but which we do not distribute in binary form for licensing reasons. > A current list of these can be found in the CVS module "scripts", at > scripts/bindist/excludes. They include gnuplot, tetex-texmf, and pdflib, > among others. > > There are other packages which *are* available in binary form which > depend on these, but if you try to install them using apt-get, dselect, > or a FinkCommander binary install, you get an error message due to > the missing packages. > > This needs to be explained to users. The fact that they then need to > use "fink install foo" to install the missing package before going back > to the binary installation needs to be explained. And the fact that > they will need the Developer Tools before running "fink install foo" > also needs to be explained. > > Any takers? > > -- Dave > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.NET email is sponsored by: > SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! > http://www.vasoftware.com > _______________________________________________ > Fink-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel -- Alexander Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Columbia University ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
