[Fink-devel] gtk+2 compiling errors (ld: multiple definitions)

2003-01-06 Thread Robert Isenberg
Hi, I hope mailing this list is the correct place, but I've tried to email the maintainer of the gtk+2 package, but I get an automatic email back from his email provider saying that he is over his quota, so it won't receive the message!!! I'm having problems compiling GTK+2.0.6-2. It was

Re: [Fink-devel] gtk+2 compiling errors (ld: multiple definitions)

2003-01-06 Thread David R. Morrison
Robert Isenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I hope mailing this list is the correct place, but I've tried to email the maintainer of the gtk+2 package, but I get an automatic email back from his email provider saying that he is over his quota, so it won't receive the message!!! I'm

[Fink-devel] new maintainer

2003-01-06 Thread pluto5000
Hi all, I just found out this morning that I'm the maintainer of 'libnids' Until now i didn't know I was. :) Now I need to know how I can update and/or edit the package description. I know nothing and there was no readily available info on the sourceforge page. I'm about to go and try

[Fink-devel] Who should Provide X11 ?

2003-01-06 Thread Martin Costabel
I think this has been discussed before, but it has come up again a lot lately: Many (most) packages that need to run under X11 have a dependency on the virtual package x11. This is not enough to make them work. The x11 virtual package is provided by the xfree86-base package. The problem with

Re: [Fink-devel] Who should Provide X11 ?

2003-01-06 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Martin == Martin Costabel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Martin Either the Provides: x11 has to be shifted from *-base to Martin *-rootless, or the packages that really need X11 windows and not just Martin some of the libraries, must depend on something else, maybe another Martin virtual package

Re: [Fink-devel] Who should Provide X11 ?

2003-01-06 Thread Bruce Korb
Jeff Whitaker wrote: Why force people to install xfree86-rootless if they don't really need to? Because is solves real, multi-hour problems. The cost is very marginal: systems that need x-base and not x servers and their price is only a few minutes of install time. The disk space is only

Re: [Fink-devel] Who should Provide X11 ?

2003-01-06 Thread Martin Costabel
David wrote: please keep in mind, that this is a VERY important decision. As the documentation maintainer I will have to make sure that every reference to X11 is then changed to the new name and that consistency is provided throughout the whole documentation. What the documentation

Re: [Fink-devel] Who should Provide X11 ?

2003-01-06 Thread Martin Costabel
Bruce Korb wrote: Jeff Whitaker wrote: Why force people to install xfree86-rootless if they don't really need to? Because is solves real, multi-hour problems. The cost is very marginal: systems that need x-base and not x servers and their price is only a few minutes of install time. The

Re: [Fink-devel] Who should Provide X11 ?

2003-01-06 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
David == David [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How about x11-server? David Hello guys, David please keep in mind, that this is a VERY important decision. As the David documentation maintainer I will have to make sure that every reference David to X11 is then changed to the new name No,

Re: [Fink-devel] bundle-gnome-1.4-13

2003-01-06 Thread Martin Costabel
Eric Nicholson wrote: The package seems to need newer Gnome App libraries the install ends like this checking for Gnome App libraries (GAL) = 0.20.1.99... 0.19.2 found configure: error: You need Gnome App libraries (GAL) 0.20.1.99 or later to build gtkhtml. ### execution of ./configure failed,

Re: [Fink-devel] Who should Provide X11 ?

2003-01-06 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
On 6 Jan 2003, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: David == David [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: David Hello guys, David please keep in mind, that this is a VERY important decision. As the David documentation maintainer I will have to make sure that every reference David to X11 is then changed to the new

Re: [Fink-devel] Who should Provide X11 ?

2003-01-06 Thread Torrey Lyons
At 9:25 PM +0100 1/6/03, Martin Costabel wrote: Bruce Korb wrote: Jeff Whitaker wrote: Why force people to install xfree86-rootless if they don't really need to? Because is solves real, multi-hour problems. The cost is very marginal: systems that need x-base and not x servers and their

Re: [Fink-devel] Who should Provide X11 ?

2003-01-06 Thread Ben Hines
On Monday, January 6, 2003, at 05:13 PM, Torrey Lyons wrote: I haven't been lurking on fink-devel long enough to have insight into what the earlier debates on this were, but I have always found it strange that fink still separates the server from rest of XFree86. Sure you can think of

Re: [Fink-devel] /usr/local/fink

2003-01-06 Thread Ben Hines
On Monday, January 6, 2003, at 11:02 PM, Brian Kendig wrote: '/usr/local' is the well-established place to put software that's not part of the system distribution. The FAQ says this, too. But what the FAQ doesn't acknowledge is that not every piece of local software has to fit into

Re: [Fink-devel] /usr/local/fink

2003-01-06 Thread David
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 On Dienstag, Jänner 7, 2003, at 08:40 Uhr, Brian Kendig wrote: snip Installing from the Fink 0.5.0a disk image doesn't prompt me for a location; it automatically uses '/sw'. I'll go back and reinstall from the .tar.gz file. (But