Date: Fri, 1 Dec 1995 08:25:24 -0700 From: Nate Williams <nate@rocky.sri.MT.net> To: kallio@jyu.fi (Seppo Kallio) Cc: Nate Williams <nate@rocky.sri.MT.net>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Comments, minor problems installing 2.1 Message-ID: <199512011525.IAA25876@rocky.sri.MT.net> In-Reply-To: <v0153053face4482278c0@[130.234.41.39]> References: <v0153053face4482278c0@[130.234.41.39]>
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Seppo Kallio writes: > 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? Yep, but at this time X isn't installed via the package system due to the size of it. The package tools currently require 2X the amount of space to install a package. Nate
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