-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 8/24/10 6:46 PM, Scott R. Santos wrote: > > Hi Dan, > > Thank you for taking over the maintenance of EMBOSS. A couple of things I > noticed: > > 1) While the "slimmed" down version of plplot have reduced the dependency > load of EMBOSS on i386, its still fairly high (at least 85 additional > packages), including python and postgresq. If possible, it would be great to > have the possibility to install and maintain EMBOSS via fink without all of > these "extras" (whose absence in prior releases or when compiling from > scratch have not impaired my use of this software suite). >
The current emboss package carries an explicit dependency on postgresql84, but python is coming in indirectly. It's quite possible that what you are seeing is due to updates in the chain. Fink tends to be overgenerous in specifying dependencies because that's an easy way to avoid having packages build differently on different systems--and some packages have functionalities based on what they detect which aren't easily turned off. We also tend to build more than just the core functionality of a package, and include all of the bindings, etc. that get built by default. That can lead to a large number of packages that get built but not installed. It's possible that the dependency load of emboss got changed by its upstream developer, and the former maintainer changed it to follow suit--I'm not sure. One can never guarantee that the dependencies of a package at a given version will be the only ones--or retained, for that matter--at the next version. > 2) I now get the following error when I try to update EMBOSS on X86_64 > systems (didn't happen before the new plplot was introduced and guess > "wxmac28-shlibs" isn't available for this platform; I consider this another > reason to have a "vanilla" version of EMBOSS available via fink): > > srsan...@scott-r-santoss-macbook-pro:~$ fink update-all > Information about 9342 packages read in 0 seconds. > Can't resolve dependency "wxmac28-shlibs" for package > "libplplot10-shlibs-5.9.6-1" (no matching packages/versions found) > Exiting with failure. > srsan...@scott-r-santoss-macbook-pro:~$ fink update emboss > Information about 9342 packages read in 0 seconds. > Can't resolve dependency "wxmac28-shlibs" for package > "libplplot10-shlibs-5.9.6-1" (no matching packages/versions found) > Exiting with failure. > srsan...@scott-r-santoss-macbook-pro:~$ uname -v > Darwin Kernel Version 10.4.0: Fri Apr 23 18:27:12 PDT 2010; > root:xnu-1504.7.4~1/RELEASE_X86_64 > srsan...@scott-r-santoss-macbook-pro:~$ > > Cheers and thanks again for you efforts, > > Scott > > ********************************************************************** > Scott R. Santos > Department of Biological Sciences & > Cell and Molecular Biosciences Peak Program > Auburn University > 101 Life Science Building, Rm. 128 > Auburn, AL 36849 > Tele # (334) 844-7410 > Fax # (334) 844-1645 > Email: [email protected] > Lab Website: http://www.auburn.edu/~santosr/ > ********************************************************************** > > > > wxmac28 is currently busted on 10.6/x86_64, and its maintainer hasn't been active of late. We need to deactivate anything that depends on it, and up the chain, which would therefore include plplot and emboss, ynless somebody has an update to wxmac28 which works on x86_64. - -- Alexander Hansen Fink User Liaison -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkx0Y3gACgkQB8UpO3rKjQ+l9ACdFHH/ZuJfYOuLf6LINcX/XOXX qOAAnRo2+yxfWMoY8L1mZf1SfJx8OTFD =aFOY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sell apps to millions through the Intel(R) Atom(Tm) Developer Program Be part of this innovative community and reach millions of netbook users worldwide. Take advantage of special opportunities to increase revenue and speed time-to-market. Join now, and jumpstart your future. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-atom-d2d _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
