From: Benjamin R. <ra...@be...> - 2003-10-16 12:49:18
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gxs wrote: > Hello. > > I wanted to make an Octave+Gnuplot installer using fink and > Apple's PackageMaker, and noticed that Gnuplot now depended > on X11. If I remember correctly, it didn't in 3.8h(?) days. > > Is there some reason for this? I don't know specifically about gnuplot, but I do know: > Since my plan was to use AquaTerm (rater than X11), I > newly installed fink and, as two experiments, > > 1) changed gnuplot-3.8i.0-6.info and 'ran fink install' > 2) ran 'apt-get install' and 'dpkg -r --force-depends > system-xfree86' (because my OS X box has Apple's X11). ...that this did nothing to actually remove X11 from your system, so it would still end up building against it either way. All you did was remove the placeholder that tells fink you have X11. The source would still find it regardless. =) > Octave/Gnuplot seemed to work fine in both experiments, > hence my question above. -- Benjamin Reed a.k.a. Ranger Rick -- http://ranger.befunk.com/ gpg: 6401 D02A A35F 55E9 D7DD 71C5 52EF A366 D3F6 65FE "You can scoff, Lister, that's nothing new. They laughed at Galileo. They laughed at Edison. They laughed at Columbo." "Who's Columbo?" "The man with the dirty mac who discovered America." -- _Red Dwarf_ |