On Saturday, March 29, 2003, at 05:04 AM, John Davidorff Pell wrote:
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I've noticed that there are a number of placeholder packages, I was
just thinking of another, for Tcl/Tk which i just got from CVS, and it
occurred to me that if we made placeholder packages for every package
we'd be crazy. Is there a way (perhaps not for the next few releases)
to have a 'generic' package that can be updated to provide for
dependancies for the system, or even some built in automatic method?
I'd be happy to help and/or test (I'm not sure if i would be much help
if we do a built-in method).
Most likely not. The reason we have these depends is so that every
person gets exactly the same package, and so that _fink_ has control of
all the packages it needs. Without this control, many things break as
you upgrade or clean old programs that you think you no longer need.
also if is possible to install a program/lib anywhere, and fink would
have no idea where to look. We dont provide a placeholder package
unless it supplies *everything* needed, and then usually only if it
comes with the system
-chris zubrzycki
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