On 1/15/13 5:15 PM, Cook, Rich wrote: > > 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. :-) >
The best alternative is to crowdsource it by asking on the mailing lists or the IRC. There's a reasonable chance that _somebody_ has the relevant package installed. -- 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
