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From: Nate Williams <nate@rocky.sri.MT.net>
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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
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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