On 1/15/13 4:59 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. > > -- > Greetings > > Pete > > Almost anything is easier to get into than out of. > – Allen's Law > >
There's nothing, however, preventing us from doing this in principle. The buildworld tool that Hanspeter mentioned builds noninteractively. And mutually exclusive packages (say A and B) are no problem, since you can get file information out of packages which are built but not installed as well (dpkg -c <filename>). -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison My package updates: http://finkakh.wordpress.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
