[Fink-devel] Scipy Linear Algebra functions

2005-03-23 Thread Greg Novak
I get the following traceback when using Scipy 0.3.2 on Mac OSX 10.3. The Fink package I'm using is numbered: 1:0.3.2-2. Any suggestions are appreciated. Thanks! Greg In [25]: linalg.inv([[1,0],[0,1]]) --- PPImportError

[Fink-devel] Apple X11 Crashes

2005-02-16 Thread Greg Novak
I often use my iBook as an X-terminal to run programs at work and have them pop windows on the local machine. This is usually Emacs, but also includes various plotting programs and acrobat. Recently (maybe 6 months ago... the problem is intermittent, so I'm not sure exactly when it started) I'v

[Fink-devel] User mode Fink

2003-10-12 Thread Greg Novak
Benjamin Reed: Please ignore this message. Agreed, the Panther release is more important, and this is not a request for user-mode fink immediately. Just a parallel discussion among people who are interested. Fair enough?

[Fink-devel] Re: Fink-devel digest, Vol 1 #1188 - 12 msgs

2003-10-11 Thread Greg Novak
> IMHO there should be *no* package that makes *anything* SUID root that > I (the user) don't know about, thus those packages that require > something like that should be modified on a per-package basis (for > these packages something like 'sudo make...' would work fine). True in principle, an

[Fink-devel] fink and CVS?

2003-10-09 Thread Greg Novak
> The simplest thing to do is to simply add this as an alternative method. > But we were just discussing on #fink a more drastic change: we could > scrap anonymous cvs access altogether, and offer only two access > methods, rsync or ext cvs (the latter for fink developers only). Has CVS been scra

Re: [Fink-devel] Non-root builds?

2003-09-10 Thread Greg Novak
> So while your modification is great for all but the next-to-last step that > a developer takes, it's not practical for most users of Fink, who want > to go ahead and build the deb, or take a pre-built deb and install it. For users of fink, I think the current setup is fine. You're right, most p

[Fink-devel] Non-root builds?

2003-09-10 Thread Greg Novak
I started creating some fink packages that I may eventually try to have distributed, and I recently had the extremely unpleasant experience of having a "fink build" command write a whole bunch of files to the fink tree (not the /sw/src/package-root directory, as it was supposed to). It turns out th

Re: [Fink-devel] Non-root builds?

2003-09-10 Thread Greg Novak
On Tue, 9 Sep 2003 Jerry Talkington wrote: > Unfortunately there doesn't seem to any desire among the maintainers to > make fink a more user mode environment, which is a big mistake, IMHO. > An application shouldn't request root privileges until absolutely > necessary. A poorly patched or configu

[Fink-devel] Non-root builds?

2003-09-09 Thread Greg Novak
I started creating some fink packages that I may eventually try to have distributed, and I recently had the extremely unpleasant experience of having a "fink build" command write a whole bunch of files to the fink tree (not the /sw/src/package-root directory, as it was supposed to). It turns out th