Re: [Fink-devel] Re: Fink-devel digest, Vol 1 #1332 - 1 msg

2003-12-31 Thread Max Horn
Am 01.01.2004 um 06:17 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: "Let him who is without sin cast the first stone." But *THE SIN* is with all of us! Right, Justin? :-) [Yeah yeah I admit that was a bad pun, but I couldn't resist. What do you expect of a man at 6 AM when he's finally getting to bed, hm? Good

Re: [Fink-devel] gettext-dev and libiconv-dev dependencies

2003-12-31 Thread Max Horn
[Err, folks, please tell Ben and me when we are getting too much on your nerves, then we can continue our debate off-list :-)] Am 01.01.2004 um 04:24 schrieb Ben Hines: [resend] On Dec 31, 2003, at 6:11 PM, Max Horn wrote: Err, sorry, but I don't understand why you react so extremely aggre

[Fink-devel] Re: Fink-devel digest, Vol 1 #1332 - 1 msg

2003-12-31 Thread wgscott
"Let him who is without sin cast the first stone." Combined with your comments on a tracker item today (to a simple user who didn't follow the rules - yeah, users do that, no need to yell at them) William G. Scott --- This SF.net email i

Re: [Fink-devel] gettext-dev and libiconv-dev dependencies

2003-12-31 Thread Ben Hines
[resend] On Dec 31, 2003, at 6:11 PM, Max Horn wrote: Err, sorry, but I don't understand why you react so extremely aggressive. I just re-read what I wrote, and I still don't get why what I wrote makes me a dick (again, apparently). I was merely asking, and IMO not even impolite (although

Re: [Fink-devel] gettext-dev and libiconv-dev dependencies

2003-12-31 Thread Max Horn
[Disclaimer: I am not implying that Martin or anybody else is stupid, incompetent, not thorough, or whatever. Rather, I try to participate in a technical discussion. For this, it is usually necessary to ask questions and show problems. Those problems may indeed have solutions, even trivial ones

Re: [Fink-devel] gettext-dev and libiconv-dev dependencies

2003-12-31 Thread Max Horn
Am 31.12.2003 um 22:21 schrieb Ben Hines: On Dec 31, 2003, at 12:32 PM, Max Horn wrote: Am 31.12.2003 um 21:00 schrieb Martin Costabel: Ben Hines wrote: On Dec 22, 2003, at 4:50 AM, Martin Costabel wrote: [] I am dreaming of a mechanism that would remove a BuilDependsOnly package immediately af

Re: [Fink-devel] gettext-dev and libiconv-dev dependencies

2003-12-31 Thread Ben Hines
On Dec 31, 2003, at 1:21 PM, Ben Hines wrote: I have been thinking about this some more, and I would now like to propose this seriously as a solution for several problems that were biting us recently. The more I think about it, the more it seems to me that we will *have to* do this. Here is t

Re: [Fink-devel] gettext-dev and libiconv-dev dependencies

2003-12-31 Thread Ben Hines
On Dec 31, 2003, at 12:32 PM, Max Horn wrote: Am 31.12.2003 um 21:00 schrieb Martin Costabel: Ben Hines wrote: On Dec 22, 2003, at 4:50 AM, Martin Costabel wrote: [] I am dreaming of a mechanism that would remove a BuilDependsOnly package immediately after it is used. This would not only solve

Re: [Fink-devel] gettext-dev and libiconv-dev dependencies

2003-12-31 Thread Max Horn
Am 31.12.2003 um 21:00 schrieb Martin Costabel: Ben Hines wrote: On Dec 22, 2003, at 4:50 AM, Martin Costabel wrote: [] I am dreaming of a mechanism that would remove a BuilDependsOnly package immediately after it is used. This would not only solve this problem, but also come in handy in other s

[Fink-devel] Re: dists/10.2-gcc3.3/unstable/main/finkinfo/sci root3-cernlib.info,1.5,1.6 root3.info,1.8,1.9

2003-12-31 Thread David R. Morrison
Sorry, Remi! My script assumed that the here-doc construction wasn't being used in the BuildDepends field... well, that was true the last time I used the script, but I guess it's not true any more! -- Dave --- This SF.net email is sponsored

Re: [Fink-devel] Ethereal-ssl out of date?

2003-12-31 Thread Max Horn
Am 31.12.2003 um 02:45 schrieb Mark E. Perkins: Max Horn wrote: Thanks, but it has already been updated to an even newer version in CVS. Do you plan to update the 10.2-gcc3.3 tree as well? I see that 0.10.0 is now in 10.3/unstable, but all I can find under 10.2-gcc-3.3 is the previous 0.9.16.

Re: [Fink-devel] gettext-dev and libiconv-dev dependencies

2003-12-31 Thread David R. Morrison
Dear Martin, I have an alternate proposal for handling this kind of BuildDepends issue: a new field in fink that I'm tentatively calling InheritedBuildDepends. Here's how it would work. If package foo has the line InheritedBuildDepends: bar then any time another package had a BuildDepends on f

Re: [Fink-devel] gettext-dev and libiconv-dev dependencies

2003-12-31 Thread Martin Costabel
Ben Hines wrote: On Dec 22, 2003, at 4:50 AM, Martin Costabel wrote: [] I am dreaming of a mechanism that would remove a BuilDependsOnly package immediately after it is used. This would not only solve this problem, but also come in handy in other situations (it would help with the freetype2 mess

[Fink-devel] x11-dev

2003-12-31 Thread David R. Morrison
As some of you may have noticed, I just added "BuildDepends: x11-dev" to many packages in the 10.2-gcc3.3 and 10.3 trees. I also added a package xfree86-4.3.99.16-3 to 10.3/unstable. Why do this? We've had many problems over the past few months with users who didn't install the X11SDK package fr