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/

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