Gideon Simpson wrote: > So I tried blowing away my fink installation, rebuilt from sources, > updated, and with the unstable tree, some packages, such as > imagemagick, seem to want tetex and octave.
The culprit is probably the swig package which is a dependency of graphviz which is a dependency of doxygen which is a dependency of... basically everything. Since a while, the swig package has had a completely insane list of dependencies including every known programming language. I don't know if swig really needs to have all this stuff installed on the build host, but if it does, we need (at least) two variants of swig, one that can serve as dependency for graphviz and some other packages, and another one for the use of swig freaks that want all those bindings. For tetex, currently nothing can be done, I guess, there is just nobody available for fixing this, and it really serves a purpose; but pulling in octave (and with it the gcc43 compiler which took 10 hours to build on a G5/1.8GHz here) for no real reason is inadmissible, IMHO. -- Martin ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
