On Oct 5, 2005, at 6:55 AM, Dave Vasilevsky wrote:
On Oct 5, 2005, at 2:56 AM, Martin Costabel wrote:
If you only use apt-get, you don't need the dev tools. The new --
use-binary-dist flag in fink rather muddies the waters here,
because it seems to promise that you can use the binary dist with
the "fink" command which is only partly true.
Yeah, my instructions to new users has always been "install Fink
with the binary installer, then use apt-get". If it's desirable, we
could make fink-the-program display a Very Prominent Warning if
someone tries to run it without the dev tools installed, suggesting
that the user either install the tools or use apt. Yea or nay?
We may also want to talk with the FinkCommander folks to see if
they can make FC deal with this situation gracefully.
How about if instead we actually try to make it work without the dev
tools? Things were originally designed that way... And particularly
if we ever get the project of more frequent bindists off the ground,
this could be useful.
-- Dave
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