On Saturday, December 14, 2002, at 10:19 AM, Carsten wrote:
Rather than a custom script for each package, how about have fink
examine the Recommends field, then ask the user whether to install the
mentioned packages, similar to dselect?
When you choose a package in dselect, it also automatic
Rather than a custom script for each package, how about have fink
examine the Recommends field, then ask the user whether to install the
mentioned packages, similar to dselect?
When you choose a package in dselect, it also automatically selects all
Recommended packages then asks for confirmatio
I agree, it would be good to have a mechanism to query users in this way,
when there is a decision to be made during an upgrade.
It's a bit hard to see how we would implement that, though, with the current
Fink structure. About the best that could be done would be some kind of
pre-install script
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However, in the future, might it be a better idea to ask
users which version the want when there is a new splitoff?
Instead of defaulting to the version with the same name as
the one they have, even if it has a reduced feature set.
First of al
I recenlty upgrated my fink from cvs. In the process I went
from emacs21-11 to emacs21-12. I was frustrated to see that
emacs didn't look as good anymore. After some investigation,
I discovered that xaw3d support is now a splitoff. I
installed the -xaw3d version and things seem to be
straighte
