Re: [jokosher-devel] New runscript

["Stuart Langridge" <sil kryogenix org>]

On 11/13/06, Nick Murtagh <nickmurtagh gmail com> wrote:
> On 11/13/06, Stuart Langridge <sil kryogenix org> wrote:
> > It checks, I think, for all required *runtime* dependencies. What it
> > doesn't do, as per earlier mail, is check for compile-time
> > dependencies, i.e., all the stuff that you need to compile gstreamer
> > and plugins. This is because I don't know how to do that...
>
> For each distribution, install a default install and make a list of the
> packages. Then install everything necessary to compile Jokosher.
> Make another list of the packages and diff the two. This list can then
> be used in your runscript in the context of a graphical
> install-these-packages command (different for each distro I guess).

I see the theory, but there are two issues with that:
1. The user might already have some of the packages installed. This is
what I meant by checking for compile-time dependencies; I can give a
list of what's required, but I want to only show the ones *you haven't
got*, just as we do with runtime dependencies
2. I don't think I have time to install five or six different distros
and learn how to install packages on them :(

sil

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