Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA28656; Sat, 2 Dec 95 14:41:05 EST Received: from freefall.FreeBSD.ORG by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA28584; Sat, 2 Dec 95 14:40:01 EST Received: from localhost (daemon@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with SMTP id HAA01938 ; Fri, 1 Dec 1995 07:25:49 -0800 Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id HAA01582 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 1 Dec 1995 07:23:05 -0800 Received: from rocky.sri.MT.net (rocky.sri.MT.net [204.182.243.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id HAA01567 for ; Fri, 1 Dec 1995 07:23:01 -0800 Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.sri.MT.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) id IAA25876; Fri, 1 Dec 1995 08:25:24 -0700 Date: Fri, 1 Dec 1995 08:25:24 -0700 From: Nate Williams Message-Id: <199512011525.IAA25876@rocky.sri.MT.net> To: kallio@jyu.fi (Seppo Kallio) Cc: Nate Williams , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Comments, minor problems installing 2.1 In-Reply-To: References: Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk 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