Jason
At 05:25 PM 2/26/2003 -0500, Michael Chase-Salerno wrote:
We could do some checking, but unless we're going to automatically install stuff, I don't think it will make too much of a difference. We're already reporting that there are prereqs missing, all we would be doing is making the message a little nicer. Not sure that's worth the effort.
Mike
On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 12:50, Jason B. wrote:
> Since I normally don't do much Mandrake testing, I assume I'm installing
> the OS differently than those who do more with it (like the folks at
> Sherbrooke). I installed it as I do a RedHat system, which means the
> standard options, plus Software Development tools. In doing so, there were
> a number of RPMs that weren't installed. Here's the list:
>
> lynx
> libmm1
> nfs-utils-clients
> perl-CGI
> expat
> libexpat1_95-devel
>
> Since these packages are required before the prereq portion of the install,
> shouldn't we be checking some of these to make sure the install goes
> well? There seems to be numerous e-mails to the list saying "I got an
> error like lynx >= 2.8.5 is needed by ...". I know this is in the FAQ
> (IIRC), but we could do some checking... yes?
>
> Jason
>
>
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