DEPENDS

Richard Pyne rpyne at kinfolk.org
Fri Feb 7 15:03:19 GMT 2003


I have seen a couple of cases where lin did ask for optional 
dependencies that were already installed.

I didn't think much about it so I didn't save what they were.

--Richard

On Friday 07 February 2003 12:31 pm, Nick Hudson wrote:
> There has been something else too but it has been reported to the
> bud list I think.  I was talking with hirisov today and he wanted
> to recompile evolution.  Well he did a lin -c -r evolution and when
> it came to the optional_depends for mozilla it didnt ask if he
> wanted to install mozilla it just installed it.  He didnt have the
> mozilla module installed it just was going to without asking.  Same
> thing happened to me when I tested the module to see if I could
> recreate  the problem.  When it came up asking for mozilla it didnt
> ask just installed with without asking.
>
> Nick
>
>
>
>
> -------Original Message-------
> From: Chuck Mead <csm at MoonGroup.com>
> Sent: 02/07/03 10:08 AM
> To: LLML <lunar at lunar-linux.org>
> Subject: DEPENDS
>
> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
>
> Hash: SHA1
>
> Over and over with my fresh install I am seeing where the
> dependencies are not working. This morning's case in point is
> libxslt which requires libxml2. The build failed because it was
> missing libxml2 and I thought "Okay someone missed a dependency."
> So I went in to cvs to fix it... opened the DEPENDS file and there
> was libxml2 listed in all it's glory. Am I the only person who is
> noticing this?
>
> - --
> csm
>
> I am not a curmudgeon! No... really...
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
> Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux)
>
> iD8DBQE+Q9oIv6Gjsf2pQ0oRAjytAJ9W0lLY/Wnme0CKzVH9Ek6G8xsrRwCeLRSB
> v02RuVcl3HxYFsLO//+5J54=
> =M8rq
> -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
> _______________________________________________
> Lunar mailing list
> Lunar at lunar-linux.org
> http://lunar-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/lunar
>
> _______________________________________________
> Lunar mailing list
> Lunar at lunar-linux.org
> http://lunar-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/lunar

-- 
Richard B. Pyne
rpyne at kinfolk.org


More information about the Lunar mailing list