Re: libgd's dependency on xlib stops netsaint from testing

2000-12-30 Thread Petr Èech
On Sat, Dec 30, 2000 at 03:56:47AM +0100, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: Hello, ist it possible to make libgd not depend on xlibs? This will install a lot I think not. It's uses X libs so, ... of unwanted stuff on servers and it even seems to habe problems with dependencies currently.. looks to me

Re: List of packages that could be dropped

2000-12-27 Thread Petr Èech
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 03:22:21PM +0100, Christian Kurz wrote: Hi, |mhash (235 days old) Has this package been dropped from unstable? If yes, can we close the wnpp-bug about it? No. I'm not sure if gorgo orphaned it or not. php4 builds an extension with this library. Dunno, how

Re: What do you wish for in an package manager?

2000-12-26 Thread Petr Èech
Adam Lazur wrote: The ability to install more than one version of a package simultaneously. Hmm. SO you install bash 2.04-1 and bash 2.02-3. Now what will be /bin/bash 2.04 or 2.02 version? You will divert both of them and symlink it to the old name - maybe, but but how will you know, to what

Re: What do you wish for in an package manager?

2000-12-25 Thread Petr Èech
On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 10:47:00PM -0600, Dwayne C . Litzenberger wrote: Hello! I'm starting work on a new linux package manager. The idea is to be able to replace rpm, dpkg, apt, dselect (backend) with one,written mostly from scratch and designed to be as simple (code, not features) and