From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 30 23:04:36 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id XAA22883 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 30 Nov 1995 23:04:36 -0800 Received: from cc.jyu.fi (root@cc.jyu.fi [130.234.1.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with SMTP id XAA22863 for ; Thu, 30 Nov 1995 23:04:29 -0800 Received: from [130.234.41.39] (zaphod.maccc.jyu.fi) by cc.jyu.fi with SMTP id AA15168 (5.67a/IDA-1.4.4 for questions@FreeBSD.ORG); Fri, 1 Dec 1995 09:07:44 +0200 X-Sender: kallio@pop.jyu.fi Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Fri, 1 Dec 1995 09:05:42 +0300 To: Nate Williams , kallio@jyu.fi (Seppo Kallio) From: kallio@jyu.fi (Seppo Kallio) Subject: Re: Comments, minor problems installing 2.1 Cc: Nate Williams , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk At 17:30 30/11/95, Nate Williams wrote: >> >> 2. installed emacs+xemacs, but it does not work because of libXaw missing >That's the problem with using pre-packaged software. You need to set it >up so it's useful to most of the folks, which means it's not useful to a >minority of the folks. Yes, this is not serious problem. But couldn't pkg_add check that all required libraries are installed? Isn't there any "pkg requirements" feature in this pkg system? Seppo -- +-- Seppo Kallio ----- kallio@jyu.fi ---+ ! Computing Center ! Fax +358-41-603611 Phone +358-41-603606 ! ! University of Jyvaskyla ! http://www.jyu.fi/~kallio ! +-- Finland --+-- 62.14N 25.44E -- +