Re: [Fink-devel] Funny PKG Dependencies

2002-09-19 Thread Ben Hines
On Thursday, September 19, 2002, at 11:08 AM, Bruce Korb wrote: > >>> It finally >>> blew up and died ... because something needed XFree86 >>> but it hadn't been downloaded. > > some dependency must have been missed. Clearly not a Big Deal. > Just FYI. But as a developer, you will unders

Re: [Fink-devel] Funny PKG Dependencies

2002-09-19 Thread Max Horn
At 11:20 Uhr -0600 19.09.2002, Jeff Whitaker wrote: >Bruce: That long list of dependencies comes from libxml2, which >BuildDepends on python. Python in turn Depends on a whole bunch of stuff. >Note this is a build time dependency only, someone installing a binary >would not have to install all

Re: [Fink-devel] Funny PKG Dependencies

2002-09-19 Thread Bruce Korb
Jeff Whitaker wrote: > > Bruce: That long list of dependencies comes from libxml2, which > BuildDepends on python. Python in turn Depends on a whole bunch of stuff. I guessed as much. The reason I raised this, tho, is because: > > It finally > > blew up and died ... because something n

Re: [Fink-devel] Funny PKG Dependencies

2002-09-19 Thread Jeff Whitaker
Bruce: That long list of dependencies comes from libxml2, which BuildDepends on python. Python in turn Depends on a whole bunch of stuff. Note this is a build time dependency only, someone installing a binary would not have to install all that stuff. These long lists of dependencies arise becaus

[Fink-devel] Funny PKG Dependencies

2002-09-19 Thread Bruce Korb
Hi, I finally loaded up fink on my 10.2 system the other day. With the base install done and nothing else, I tried to "update" my package, "autogen". The (transitive) list of dependencies was pretty amazing for a console program, going through Gtk and a lot of other stuff. It finally blew up a