On Jan 15, 2013, at 3:59 PM, Peter Dyballa wrote: > > Am 15.01.2013 um 23:54 schrieb Cook, Rich: > >> In today's world, the resources and bandwidth for such a list would not be >> an unreasonable cost for the benefit in my opinion. > > And who has the time or the Mac to perform this task, which can take days > because some packages cannot be compiled in parallel make jobs? And who has > such a big external disk left over? (And I am not mentioning the cost of > electrical energy.) > > And there more problems: some packages are mutually exclusive, some depend on > old software, so Fink is asking questions all the while to remove or to > install packages. This task needs some dedication.
I did not realize this would be so hard to automate and be so resource intensive. I live in a fairy dream world... it's beautiful here, with unicorns and daisies. :-) -- ✐Richard Cook ✇ Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Bldg-453 Rm-4024, Mail Stop L-557 7000 East Avenue, Livermore, CA, 94550, USA ☎ (office) (925) 423-9605 ☎ (fax) (925) 423-6961 --- Information Management & Graphics Grp., Services & Development Div., Integrated Computing & Communications Dept. (opinions expressed herein are mine and not those of LLNL) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Master Java SE, Java EE, Eclipse, Spring, Hibernate, JavaScript, jQuery and much more. Keep your Java skills current with LearnJavaNow - 200+ hours of step-by-step video tutorials by Java experts. SALE $49.99 this month only -- learn more at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnmore_122612 _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [email protected] List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.macosx.fink.user Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
