Tim, On Thursday, May 04, 2006 12:59 AM you wrote: > ... > Bill Page wrote: > > > > I *strongly* disagree with this. Even the GCL build itself > > will stop if it does not find the necessary prerequisits. > > Satisfying prerequists is not the job of the build software. > > This is handled by other tools like apt-get and yum. > > well, we'll always disagree on this. always. > > i have used redhat's rpm, redhat's update, apt-get, and yum. > and they all break things that used to work and upgrade packages > that i don't want touched. i have a recently installed FC5 > system that was intended to be used for axiom porting. after a > yum update it is now non-functional.
You have reported this to the Fedora Core developers? > now i have to waste time doing a re-install of FC5. I do NOT > want this to happen to an axiom user, at least not because they > tried to install axiom. If you do not trust programs that attempt to automatically resolve dependencies then why would you want to build this functionality into the Axiom source distribution? > > it should 'just work', correctly, cleanly, and out of the box. > I think the developers of apt-get and yum might agree with you. ;) But I think most developers would prefer to take care of this themselves. People who want to work with Axiom without these hassles should install the appropriate binary version. Regards, Bill Page. _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
