Benjamin Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ben Hines wrote:
> > How about a "gurus only" option in fink.conf or something that specifies
> > a list of packages that fink will assume are installed? We could allow
> > regex in this list, to you could put something like:
> >
> > IgnorePackages: "o
> "Ben" == Ben Hines <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> While your way will work in a way that doesn't change code,
>> it's not maintainable. Every person who adds a -pm module
>> would have to also remember to update the "system-perl" module.
>>
>> I want the core "fink" tool to understand this
On Friday, January 24, 2003, at 03:05 PM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
"Ben" == Ben Hines <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Ben> I believe i explained how to do this earlier in the thread.
While your way will work in a way that doesn't change code,
it's not maintainable. Every person who adds a -pm
> "Jeremy" == Jeremy Erwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Jeremy> Well, one could write a flag "--ignore-pm" that would simply direct
Jeremy> fink not to check for the presence of a -pm type package. The fink
Jeremy> program would then assume that the user had already resolved the
Jeremy> depende
> "Ben" == Ben Hines <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Ben> I believe i explained how to do this earlier in the thread.
While your way will work in a way that doesn't change code,
it's not maintainable. Every person who adds a -pm module
would have to also remember to update the "system-perl" modu
On Friday, January 24, 2003, at 01:14 PM, David R. Morrison wrote:
One possibility is to have a simple package "system-perlmodules" which
would
simply "Provide" all of the perlmodules on the system (and "Conflict"
with
I believe i explained how to do this earlier in the thread.
-Ben
---
Randal,
I'm curious about how this works under Debian; do you know? Is it possible
for Debian users to notify the Debian system that they have installed
perl modules another way?
I would also ask the same question about FreeBSD Ports. Either of those
could be a guide about how to do this in Fin
On Friday, January 24, 2003, at 01:08 PM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
The rest of the suggestions in this thread are welcome, but I still
think we need to consider that fink is likely to be used by
power-compilers like me as well as naive compilers that simply want
access to cool Unix binaries f
On Friday, January 24, 2003, at 01:32 PM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
It is to *those* people whom I address the question - how can
fink play nicely with a self-installed Perl installation? Something
"system-MUMBLE"-ish should work, but will require the support
of the fink developers.
As of
> "Hisashi" == Hisashi T Fujinaka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> What's the next step?
Hisashi> Well, you never told me how to automatically update things using CPAN.
OK, maybe this will sound snotty, but perhaps "perldoc CPAN" was a bit
too hard for you to type? In that case, everything th
> "Hisashi" == Hisashi T Fujinaka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Hisashi> The reason I quit using cpan is because it puts things places I don't want
Hisashi> (overwriting /usr/bin/head, for example)
No longer. And it put stuff there only because that's where you told
it to put Perl. I build in
On Tuesday, January 21, 2003, at 01:46 PM, Ben Hines wrote:
erlmodules.info
Package: system-perlmodules
Version: 1.0
Provides: gd-pm, algorithm-diff-pm, http-dav-pm (parse the
package names from the output of "fink list --section=perlmods -w=200"
and put them all here)
Type: nosource
Com
On Monday, January 20, 2003, at 04:45 AM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
Any thoughts on how to do this without breaking everything open?
With the current fink, the way to make a system-* package would be:
filename: system-perlmodules.info
Package: system-perlmodules
Version: 1.0
Provides: gd-p
On Tuesday, January 21, 2003, at 11:57 AM, Xavier HUMBERT wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hisashi T Fujinaka) wrote :
it puts things places I don't want
(overwriting /usr/bin/head, for example)
Dan't blame CPAN, but Apple with their crappy HFS+, for that...
I expericenced, the same problem, of c
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hisashi T Fujinaka) wrote :
> it puts things places I don't want
> (overwriting /usr/bin/head, for example)
Dan't blame CPAN, but Apple with their crappy HFS+, for that...
I expericenced, the same problem, of course :-}
--
Xavier
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On Monday, January 20, 2003, at 07:45 AM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
However, the packages that depend on those fink Perl packages insist
on installing them, and they break if they include anything that might
end up in /sw/lib/perl5/darwin, since those binaries are not
compatible with my /usr/loc
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