--- Daniel Macks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 07:30:23AM -0700, Jeff Spitz wrote:
> > Furthermore, choose (3) or (4):
> > 
> >     (3) It is impossible to devise a package management system for
> >         which svn does not require X11.
> > 
> >     (4) It is possible to devise a package management system for which
> >         svn does not require X11, however fink cannot do so at this
> >         time.
> > 
> > Now, (3) is downright false, given that I've just built svn directly
> > from sources without X11, and that darwinports builds svn from sources
> > without X11.  Oops! I just gave you a hint.
> 
> Ah, but a manual build isn't a package management system. You have a
> one-time manual task that has no clear reproducibility or
> deterministic results, but accomplishes a specific niche task. Thus,
> that situation and results are unrelated, and indeed almost completely
> opposite what fink, and indeed any reliable good package management
> system stands for. As for 4 and your MacPorts (remember, it changed
> names a while ago!), you have already been told that fink already does
> have an svn that does not require x11. So clearly you're here to troll
> not to learn.
> 
> dan

Given that I've built svn manually from sources without X11 implies that
it is *possible* to devise a package managment system for which svn does
not require X11.  Read the question.

-jeff



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