[Fink-users] Feature Request: Easier Placeholders?

[Alexandre Enkerli]

It'd be nice to have an easy way to build minimal "placeholders" to resolve dependencies.


Given the proliferation of software distributions on OSX these days, we often have different pieces installed from different origins. MySQL is a good example (official, Entropy.ch, Fink, Aaron Faby...).
When these pieces are involved in Fink dependencies, it can get ugly. There are placeholders for a few of these (X, TeX, GS, and Fortran) but it'd be nice to have a simple way to make them ourselves. Or, even better, have a configure script check for some of the standard ones.

Now, I haven't looked into the specifics of what building a placeholder (� la system-tetex) involves, but my request would be for a simple item in the Fink database saying "I have such-and-such version installed already" maybe with the install directory. In fact, this could be both for resolving dependencies within Fink and to help keep track of installed programs in general.
Fancier placeholders (checking that everything works) could be built from that minimal information.

Case in point, Python. Python 2.2 is directly in /usr, at least in 10.2.x. Some packages require Fink's "python22" which may or may not be significantly different from the installed python. Do we need to install python22 or force installation without dependencies? A quick check would be better.

Sorry for the length of this post.


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