David R. Morrison wrote: []
I have made a new version of system-tetex which attempts to give better advice to users, and put it in my experimental directory. Since I'm *not* a user of Weirda's distribution, this is hard for me to test.
Seems to work (I don't use GWtex either, just for testing). Some remarks:
It might be useful to put some eye-catching
*** ERROR ***
or something in the output after ".. will check for some files .." and before the error message when a missing file is detected. "fink install system-tetex" produces quite some lines of output, and what the unsuspecting user sees is mainly the end
dpkg: error processing /sw/fink/dists/local/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/system-tetex_20010808-14_darwin-powerpc.deb (--install):
subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
/sw/fink/dists/local/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/system-tetex_20010808-14_darwin-powerpc.deb
### execution of dpkg failed, exit code 1
Failed: can't install package system-tetex-20010808-14
It takes some effort to go back from there and find the relevant message. The message itself is OK. Finding the expert mode in the i-installer for TeX and choosing the right package is then actually very simple.
While you are at it, could you fix the line
echo "You don't a valid teTeX installation; you were missing"
Or is this meant as a self-referential illustration of "missing"? :-)
Finally, GW spells himself Wierda, not Weirda.
-- Martin
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