From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Nov 26 11:56:01 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id LAA28014 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 26 Nov 1995 11:56:01 -0800 Received: from brainaid.oche.de (brainaid.oche.de [193.174.14.162]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with SMTP id LAA27979 for ; Sun, 26 Nov 1995 11:55:01 -0800 Received: by brainaid.oche.de (Smail3.1.29.1 #1) id m0tJn6D-000978C; Sun, 26 Nov 95 20:50 MET Message-Id: From: gvw@brainaid.oche.de (Guido von Walter) Subject: Re: 210R Install Feedback To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Sun, 26 Nov 1995 20:50:52 +0100 (MET) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <12510.817401152@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Nov 26, 95 07:52:32 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME5a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 897 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > > fetching and installing applications is a great feature. But there is a > > major drawback: Dependencies are not handled by the tool. An example: > > Actually, they are, but only if you install something like ghostview > before ghostscript (then it'll yank in ghostscript - try it!). It Well, I did try it. Maybe ghostview wasn't a good example, it is in fact installed... But xv and imagemagick, for example aren't. Maybe the problem is not as simple as I thought. I'll test this again. > > > I would be quite happy with a summary of errors at the end of installation > > Select "no confirm" from the Options menu.. :-) My apologies. Didn't read enough... Guido `~^'-.,.-'^~`~^'-.,.-'^~`~^'-.,.-'^~`~^'-.,.-'^~`~^'-.,.-'^~` Guido von Walter mailto:gvw@brainaid.oche.de http://brainaid.oche.de/~gvw Press any key to continue, any other key to exit