Re: [Fink-devel] Implied Perl dependency tree following or what am I missing?

2004-07-25 Thread Martin Costabel
David R. Morrison wrote: [] Well, whether it was caused by placeholders or not, what we're trying to avoid these days is having the user make a choice of which -pmXXX to install. You're not supposed to have Depends: foo-pm560 | foo-pm581 Just a remark from the sidelines about this misunderstand

Re: [Fink-devel] Implied Perl dependency tree following or what am I missing?

2004-07-24 Thread David R. Morrison
On Jul 24, 2004, at 1:19 PM, jfm wrote: On Jul 24, 2004, at 7:04 PM, David R. Morrison wrote: Please consult the packaging manual. It is no longer permitted to have a "placeholder" -pm package which depends on versioned packages. The only exception is storable-pm, because of the historical way i

Re: [Fink-devel] Implied Perl dependency tree following or what am I missing?

2004-07-24 Thread Benjamin Reed
jfm wrote: On Jul 24, 2004, at 7:04 PM, David R. Morrison wrote: Please consult the packaging manual. It is no longer permitted to have a "placeholder" -pm package which depends on versioned packages. The only exception is storable-pm, because of the historical way it is used during bootstrapping

Re: [Fink-devel] Implied Perl dependency tree following or what am I missing?

2004-07-24 Thread jfm
On Jul 24, 2004, at 7:04 PM, David R. Morrison wrote: Please consult the packaging manual. It is no longer permitted to have a "placeholder" -pm package which depends on versioned packages. The only exception is storable-pm, because of the historical way it is used during bootstrapping. Whoever

Re: [Fink-devel] Implied Perl dependency tree following or what am I missing?

2004-07-24 Thread Hisashi T Fujinaka
On Sat, 24 Jul 2004, David R. Morrison wrote: Hisashi T Fujinaka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, 23 Jul 2004, Benjamin Reed wrote: David H. wrote: fink needs help picking an alternative to satisfy a virtual dependency. The candidates: (1) io-stringy-pm560: Perl module for advanced I/O with fileh

Re: [Fink-devel] Implied Perl dependency tree following or what am I missing?

2004-07-24 Thread David R. Morrison
Hisashi T Fujinaka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 23 Jul 2004, Benjamin Reed wrote: > > > David H. wrote: > > > >> fink needs help picking an alternative to satisfy a virtual > >> dependency. The candidates: > >> > >> (1) io-stringy-pm560: Perl module for advanced I/O with filehandles > >>

Re: [Fink-devel] Implied Perl dependency tree following or what am I missing?

2004-07-24 Thread jfm
On Jul 23, 2004, at 11:57 PM, Benjamin Reed wrote: David H. wrote: fink needs help picking an alternative to satisfy a virtual dependency. The candidates: (1) io-stringy-pm560: Perl module for advanced I/O with filehandles Since I wish to install soap-lite-ssl for Perl 5.8.1 and it seems to be a ve

Re: [Fink-devel] Implied Perl dependency tree following or what am I missing?

2004-07-23 Thread Hisashi T Fujinaka
On Fri, 23 Jul 2004, Benjamin Reed wrote: David H. wrote: fink needs help picking an alternative to satisfy a virtual dependency. The candidates: (1) io-stringy-pm560: Perl module for advanced I/O with filehandles Since I wish to install soap-lite-ssl for Perl 5.8.1 and it seems to be a versioned p

Re: [Fink-devel] Implied Perl dependency tree following or what am I missing?

2004-07-23 Thread Benjamin Reed
David H. wrote: fink needs help picking an alternative to satisfy a virtual dependency. The candidates: (1) io-stringy-pm560: Perl module for advanced I/O with filehandles Since I wish to install soap-lite-ssl for Perl 5.8.1 and it seems to be a versioned perl modules, should this not imply that I

[Fink-devel] Implied Perl dependency tree following or what am I missing?

2004-07-23 Thread David H.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Hello. Looking at Fink I get: fink install soap-lite-ssl-pm581 /usr/bin/sudo /sw/bin/fink install soap-lite-ssl-pm581 Information about 3675 packages read in 3 seconds. fink needs help picking an alternative to satisfy a virtual dependency. The ca