On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 12:42:33AM +0200, Martin Costabel wrote: [...] > > 2. Users are right in experiencing some hard feelings when Fink > downloads 100MB of sources, compiles for 5 hours and then says "Well, > you probably didn't want this anyway, just throw it away". We should > find a way to do the check at the beginning, before downloading and > compiling xfree86. Here is a proposition: > > Have xfree86 Depend or BuildDepend (it is too late in the evening now > for me to see clearly which one would be better) on a new package > "xfree86-check" which does nothing than running the current Pre- and > PostInstScripts from the xfree86 package.
[All downloads] happen before [any build/install], so xfree86-check wouldn't do its thing until too late. There's a feature in CVS HEAD that gives users a choice of the system-xfree86 or xfree86 pkgs when needed instead of just assuming that (when the needed *xfree86* is present) to just use Fink's pkg. Then if one selects system-xfree86 fink will give a message explaining that use must manually install a thing (w/refs to FAQs). Just rename one of the critical files system-xfree86* checks for and see what happens when a pkg BuildDepends:x11-dev. dan -- Daniel Macks [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.netspace.org/~dmacks ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by OSTG. Have you noticed the changes on Linux.com, ITManagersJournal and NewsForge in the past few weeks? Now, one more big change to announce. We are now OSTG- Open Source Technology Group. Come see the changes on the new OSTG site. www.ostg.com _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
