On 23 janv. 2004, at 07:38, Daniel Macks wrote:
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Why do you only sometimes do a -x test for xfontpath before calling
it? If it's not present but XftXConfig is, this script will crash. I
don't know much about xfontpath, but it appears that its presence
affects the installation footprint of gimp-freefonts, which isn't
right.

I see you have a Depends:xfontpath, but I don't know if fink and dpkg
have a deterministic order when installing multiple packages at once.
Maybe you should first do a -x test and then crash with a "you must
have xfontpath installed before attempting to install gimp-freefonts"
message.

This discussion is getting weirder and weirder. I know that the fink dep engine has evolved, but if one cannot any more rely on the fact that dependencies are installed *before* a package gets built and/or installed, then something must be seriously wrong.


You do the same thing in the PostRmScript, but now there's an even
weirder dependency/ordering problem: you must have xfontpath installed
in order to uninstall gimp-freefonts.

Yes, of course. You want to uninstall gimp-freefonts, you need to have it installed first. If it's installed, xfontpath is installed, too. That's called a dependency.


--
Martin




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