On Apr 8, 2004, at 4:57 PM, Daniel E. Macks wrote:
Package: gimp%type_pkg[-noprint]
Type: -noprint (boolean)
Conflicts: gimp, gimp-noprint
Replaces: gimp, gimp-noprint
This will definitely be a lot of typing, since each of those also has
the -svg variant. An easier way would be nice, but I
(I think this didn't go to the list...trying again, and with
corrections to example at the end)
Martin Costabel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Daniel Macks wrote:
> []
>> You're getting yourself *way* too worked up about variants, Martin.
>
> I get worked up about anything that doesn't work correctl
Martin Costabel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>
> BTW, fink validate doesn't yet seem to understand variants completely:
>
> % fink validate bluefish.info
> Error: Package name may only contain lowercase letters, numbers,'.', '+'
> and '-' (bluefish.info)
Fixed (I think) in CVS HEAD.
dan
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Dani
Daniel E. Macks wrote:
I just implemented 'fink dumpinfo [pkgname]' in CVS HEAD so you can
see how fink parses a package description, including percent expansion
(and hence variant info), and conditional Depends.
This is certainly useful, especially since it allows to extract
splitoffs, even for
Daniel E. Macks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> David R. Morrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>> Just to clarify: my understand of Michele's problem is that when she tries
>> to build the two variants contained in this .info file, only one of them
>> can be built.
>>
>> So either it's a problem with th
On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 02:48:37AM +0200, Martin Costabel wrote:
> Daniel E. Macks wrote:
>
>
> >Variants make it easier for the Maintainer to maintain multiple
> >variants (in the conceptual, not Fink sense) of a package. It relieves
> >what was becoming (became?) an unscalable mess of -pmXXX (a
Le 8 avr. 2004, à 2:05, Daniel E. Macks a écrit :
David R. Morrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
Just to clarify: my understand of Michele's problem is that when she
tries
to build the two variants contained in this .info file, only one of
them
can be built.
So either it's a problem with the way
Daniel E. Macks wrote:
Variants make it easier for the Maintainer to maintain multiple
variants (in the conceptual, not Fink sense) of a package. It relieves
what was becoming (became?) an unscalable mess of -pmXXX (and -pyXXX
and -rbXXX, etc.) packages. Do you really believe that all those
modul
David R. Morrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Just to clarify: my understand of Michele's problem is that when she tries
> to build the two variants contained in this .info file, only one of them
> can be built.
>
> So either it's a problem with the way she has constructed the file, or
> a proble
Martin Costabel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>
> But I don't think one should produce packages that one cannot test.
Absolutely. But...
> That's why I don't like this whole variant thing.
That seems kind of orthogonal.
Variants make it easier for the Maintainer to maintain multiple
variants (in th
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