Gary Kerbaugh wrote:
Thanks for all of the info. It's nice to know that this isn't a problem but it still strikes me wrong; there is no error or even need of a warning if dependencies are satisfied. Anyway, thanks again; I'll ignore that.
I believe some of those warnings are toned down if fink is set to a lower verbosity, I'm not positive. As I said, it's temporary, I've got a better solution in fink cvs that is less annoying.
The package that "insists" on python22 with no option for python23 is jython, which coincidentally is yours, Benjamin. I don't have jython and don't want it but it's a dependency of mx4j, which is a dependency of common-modeler which is a dependency of the old tomcat package that I have installed. The dependency of mx4j on jython must be new because I've had mx4j for a long time.
mx4j 2.0 has scripting components that want jython.
Jython is an implementation of (currently) python 2.2, but does not come with it's own base set of python libraries (all the stuff in /sw/lib/python2.2) so you need to grab it to build jython from source.
Jython has a long list of dependencies that I don't want. To begin with, it seems like a contradiction in terms that jython should need python at all. Jython also requires the serlet-api, which also doesn't make sense to me. Finally, it requires two different databases. Large companies may need two databases but not I.
There is a difference between *build* dependencies, and *runtime* dependencies. Someone will want the features that you don't necessarily want, and so I build everything in, for the eventuality when they get moved to stable and you can just apt-get them.
I would like to pare down those dependencies a bit. There are only 5 Java packages I really want and yet I probably have two dozen installed because of these extravagant dependencies. I would prefer to eliminate some of the dependencies of mx4j. I'm familiar with editing .info files for packages that take ConfigureParams, but I have no experience editing .info file for Java apps. Do you have any suggestions for how to best do it?
http://fink.sourceforge.net/doc/ =)
While I've got your ear, I'm also curious about why there is no tomcat package for Panther.
I am working on it, that's why all the java stuff got updated. :)
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