On Thursday, March 13, 2003, at 04:34 PM, Max Horn wrote:
We keep getting requests / bug reports due to problems caused by packages missing from the bindist (ghostscript). There is no really useful error message printed in these cases by apt-get / FinkCommander etc. right now...
We could add some fink-specific text to the "package foo failed because it is not installable" error, any objections? Obviously it does not always mean that you're trying to install from the bindist a package that isn't there, but for most fink users, that is exactly what it means. So we could explain that *possibility* to the user. The message is right in cmdline/apt-get.cc, we could easily add whatever we want to it.
In fact, actually.. we could have apt query fink's list of "Restrictive" packages when it encounters that error.. hmm, that'd be more work though. :)
-Ben
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