On 4/29/07, CD Baric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry guys but I finally gave up after following a trail of > dependencies 4 deep only to have the final dep crash and burn. > > I would document and submit a report but I have wasted way way way too > much time on this project as it is. > > You know what would be nice? A list of dependencies and where to > locate their source code. THAT would be nice. > > But Ooooooooooh Noooooooooo... Way too much effort for the project developers. > > Thanks for the really big waste of time. > > CD 'Bar' Baric >
Since there are numerous packages available why didn't you look at them to determine what the requirements they needed? For example inside every debian package is a file named control that lists all the dependencies. Even if you didn't want to go through that if you looked at configure it would tell you what you needed to know. You could also look at the gnome wiki that has some information here: http://live.gnome.org/?action=fullsearch&context=180&value=networkmanager&titlesearch=Titles It sounds to me like you are blaming Network Manager for your distributions packaging issues: " Sorry guys but I finally gave up after following a trail of dependencies 4 deep only to have the final dep crash and burn." I can't think of /ANY/ distribution with such a broken package system unless you were trying to build EVERY dependency from source in which case I am pretty sure you should know how to find the dependencies yourself. Any modern distribution should handle all your dependencies for you, so all you needed was the dependencies for NM (Which would be easy to find as I pointed out above or at worst configure would tell you what you are missing) and your distribution would handle the rest. There is another way you could have found out the required dependencies and that was to /ASK/ on this list, of course we can't help you if those dependencies have dependencies but that is a distribution issue. Obviously you knew how to find it since you posted this diatribe, why didn't you ask the question first? I have been on this list for around 2 years and I can't remember a single time were someone's question was ignored, someone always made an attempt to help. One last comments from me "But Ooooooooooh Noooooooooo... Way too much effort for the project developers." Like most projects this is run by volunteers who put a lot of time and effort into it, if you want support on your terms Novel, IBM, and Red Hat all offer support contracts. If you feel that the project could be enhanced in some way you are welcome to contribute or if you had presented a reasonable case for the documentation enhancement it is likely someone else would have handled it. In this case if you had asked for the dependencies in a reasonable manner I would have dug up a list and then updated the FAQ so others could find it. I will probably still do this when I get some free time, but it certainly won't be today. _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
