-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 8/10/10 5:37 PM, Daniel E. Macks wrote: > Alexander Hansen <[email protected]> said: <snip>
>>> >>> Question: when (or more importantly, why) did EMBOSS suddenly require the >>> installation of (all of) 263 dependencies, including what appears to be all >>> of GNOME? >> >> The all-of-gnome thing probably came from gnuplot. You can use >> gnuplot-nogtk to avoid that. > > Also the latest (as of -101) emboss package relies on external > (separate packages) of several things that used to be internal. In > particular, plplot is a huge library that is no longer build within > emboss itself. The plplot packaging is itself using lots of gnome > things that emboss doesn't need. To quote a note in the emboss > packaging file: > > # plplot's -nognome varianting is a disaster (adding/removing can > # change who if anyone supplies various headers and libs). > > It's fixable (tease apart the non-gnome stuff into a clean independent > package set) but not yet fixed. The plplot that comes with emboss is > its own packaging disaster that's *not* fixable and had led to all > sorts of other breakage in the previous packaging of the emboss suite. > So until I finish cleaning up plplot, "users of plplot" (i.e., you, if > you update emboss) are stuck getting gnome stuff. > > If the previous emboss you had installed (I assume you had it, because > update-all saw it was present-and-old) was working fine, there's no > urgency to updating it. The changes are *just* to the packaging > layout: shifting lots of things to external and solving lots of binary > compatibility problems in its included libraries. Updates to plplot, > which should trim out most of the gnome stuff, will probably take > another week or so. > > dan > plplot builds against octave, so it brings that into the mix, too. - -- Alexander Hansen Fink User Liaison -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkxh4QYACgkQB8UpO3rKjQ8NqQCfR92T2L+4Y/QKA3iViL6IWAq/ 21AAn04lndHnjkEAbFWIXiLtGkozt+IC =U7Wc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Make an app they can't live without Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
