At 19:48 Uhr +0800 01.02.2002, Andrew Rohl wrote: >Max > >>texinfo certainly is not an essential package and hence shouldn't >>be in the base install. > >thanks for the swift response! I guess it depends on the definition >of essential! If its required by say 50% of packages, would it be >essential? 25% etc etc....
The definition of essential is not at all based on how many packages need it. It is based on whether the package is essential for Fink to work or not. tar, bzip2, gzip, dpkg, base-files etc. are all essential to Fink since they are required to uncompress tar balls and then building the binary packages. Without them, Fink couldn't work (OK, for tar and gzip there are system version supplied, but we don't want to relay on them alone). Hence they are essential. You can still build packages without texinfo, though. >However your idea about linking InfoFiles to texinfo is a good one >but perl isn't my forte :-) Please post a feature request tracker iteme. Max -- ----------------------------------------------- Max Horn Software Developer email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> phone: (+49) 6151-494890 _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
