Hi Jonathan, On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 12:20:38 -0500, Jonathan Levi, M.D. wrote: > P.S. to my previous note on proceeding without perl580: >> I have Panther, with its pre-installed perl 5.8.1; >> "fink-virtual-pkgs" gives (among other things) >> >> Package: system-perl >> Status: install ok installed >> Version: 5.8.1-1 >> description: [virtual package representing perl] >> >> As a test, "perl -e 'print "Hello world\n";'" prints what it should. >> Is there any reason I can't proceed thus? > > For one thing, this doesn't give me /sw/bin/perl, which my next > fink update-all wanted; I got around that with > > ln -s /usr/bin/perl /sw/bin/perl > > Seems to have worked, but I feel I'm now on a slippery slope. Any > comments/advice?
Do you have any idea which program tries to install perl? I have nearly the same base configuration, namely Mac OS X 10.3.2 with it's perl and the virtual package installed too and up to now no program tried to install a fink perl. O.K. currently I don't have that much programs running but the whole gnome desktop is installed. Other packages that under OS X 10.2.x installed a perl via fink haven't installed any perl up to now so the problem must be out there in a package description or somewhere else. If you know which packages causes the perl request best guessing I have is that you should write to the maintainer and ask him if fink perl is necessary or if the system-perl package is enough. Regards, Eric Hoch -- ## Ansprechpartner Anwenderunterst�tzung, users-Mailingliste ## War unsere Hilfe erfolgreich? Bitte teilen Sie es uns mit. Danke. ## de.OpenOffice.org - Office f�r MacOS X, Linux, Solaris & Windows ## Netikette? http://www.eschkitai.de/openoffice/netikette.html ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
