Re: [GnomeMeeting-list] Static

[Christian Rose <menthos menthos com>]

On 22 Mar 2002, Miguel Rodríguez wrote:
> > > > i still think that a 'standalone' installer-version would be nice.. but
> > > > it's true i forgot the binary dependencies...
> > >
> > > USe a good distro that doesn't have problems with dependencies (debian?,
> > > hint, hint).
> >
> > Miguel, could you elaborate further? I don't understand the above
> > statement.
>
> Ok. The main advantage of having a "standalone installer-version" is
> that you don't have to go trough all the dependencies a program has and
> install them one by one. This is important to have under windows, when
> you don't have a good package manager and you don't even know what
> support programs/libs have installed, or on most distros that don't get
> the install the dependencies a package has when you install it. (and,
> well, debian does ;) ).
> Please, don't take this as an attack to some linux distros, I really
> like some of them (/me avoids to write redhat), but I miss this
> capability of them. Please, correct me if they have this working
> properly, as I would really like to know.

Does this count as a correction?


[root daim ~]# up2date xemacs

Retrieving list of all available packages...
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Removing installed packages from list of updates...
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Removing packages with files not specified from list...

Removing packages marked to skip from list...
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Getting headers for available packages...
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Removing packages with files marked to skip from list...
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Testing package set / solving RPM inter-dependencies...
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The following packages were added to your selection to satisfy
dependencies:

Name                                    Version        Release
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Canna-libs                              3.5b2          50
Wnn6-SDK                                1.0            14

Retrieving selected packages...
xemacs-21.1.14-23.7.2.i386. ########################## Done.
Canna-libs-3.5b2-50.i386.rp ########################## Done.
Wnn6-SDK-1.0-14.i386.rpm:   ########################## Done.
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
   1:Wnn6-SDK               ########################################### [ 33%]
   2:Canna-libs             ########################################### [ 66%]
   3:xemacs                 ########################################### [100%]
[root daim ~]#


Christian