On 6/23/10 9:09 PM, DJamé Seddah wrote: > Hi list, > I just installed fink on a brand new 10.6.4 install (using rsync, > selfupdate, etc.) and I wanted to install mc > (fink install mc) > and I'm astonished about the amount of stuff that seems to be needed > for this soft: 57 pkgs, among which one can find tcl/tk, sgml*, > libjpeg, docbook and so on... > I've installed this soft I don't know how many times on various system > (solaris, true64, many linux) and usually it only asked for glib, > readline, gettext, libncurse, libgz, libzip and that's it... > not this whole mess. > > Is there anything broken here ?
No. Remember that OS X does not come with a lot of the usual Unix-type libraries and packages, so installing even what looks to be a simple package at the end of the day requires things that come by default on other systems (often just for building and are not real runtime dependencies). So for example, mc needs glib2-shlibs, which needs gtk-doc to build (on Linux, glib2-shlibs is usually already prebuilt, so this subdependency is hidden). And gtk-doc needs gnome-doc-utils, which then needs libxml2-py26, why needs python26... If you want to see which of mc's dependencies is the actual culprit for requiring all those extra deps, try installing each one independently. You can see the list of (Build)Dependencies for mc here: <http://fink.cvs.sourceforge.net/fink/dists/10.4/unstable/main/finkinfo/gnome/mc.info?view=markup>. libiconv and libgettext3-shlibs are base packages, so they're always present, but try just installing glib2-shlibs to see what it needs beyond the explicit depends. And if you want to go a level deeper, here is the list of glib2-shlibs explicit dependencies: <http://fink.cvs.sourceforge.net/fink/dists/10.4/unstable/main/finkinfo/gnome/glib2-shlibs.info?view=markup> Hanspeter -- Hanspeter Niederstrasser hanspeter AT snaggledworks DOT com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
