[Fink-devel] Planning this mail - comment please

2002-03-17 Thread Max Horn
I plan to send out the following mail to fink-beginners, fink-user, and fink-announce. Please tell me what you think of it, if should forget the idea, or change something about it; you may also want to suggest changes to the list of important package I gave (I tried to keep it short, but

Re: [Fink-devel] Planning this mail - comment please

2002-03-17 Thread Justin Hallett
looks good to me, thought qt and bind9 should be added to the list IMHO. But I think it's a good email to send like once week :P [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I plan to send out the following mail to fink-beginners, fink-user, and fink-announce. Please tell me what you think of it, if should

Re: [Fink-devel] Planning this mail - comment please

2002-03-17 Thread Matt Stephenson
Excellent idea, I'd include aalib and libmpeg as the gimp needs these and samba as well. Matt On Monday, March 18, 2002, at 05:19 AM, Max Horn wrote: I plan to send out the following mail to fink-beginners, fink-user, and fink-announce. Please tell me what you think of it, if should forget

Re: [Fink-devel] Planning this mail - comment please

2002-03-17 Thread David R. Morrison
My point of view about the dependent packages is this: if a user tells us that he/she is successfully using the latest version of package foo, then we know that he/she is also successfully using at least some version of everything that foo depends on (even if the user doesn't point that out