gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:

>On Sat, Jun 10, 2000 at 10:53:36AM -0500, Bob Nestor wrote:
>> gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
>> >You're going to be waiting a coon's age if you wait for binary
>> >packages, Pat. :^>
>> 
>> What do you mean by this?  The binary packages are available for 1.4.2 as 
>> they were for 1.4.1.  I know, I built them and uploaded them.
>
>Yeah, that could bear explanation, I guess... :^>
>
>My point was not that binary packages exist or not, but that, on the
>presumption the version of KDE Pat wants was fairly recent (say, recent
>enough that it depended on packages which he couldn't find in binary
>form), he wouldn't be able to get the necessary binary packages until
>another release and rebuild of the binary packages. I'm not sure how
>he ended up trying to use a version of KDE that didn't work with the
>1.4.2 versions of those libraries, but I maintain that the way for him
>to get what he wants (recent versions of the KDE package and those it
>depends upon) is to go from pkgsrc and build them.
>
Yes, I'm not sure why the packages system gets confused about the 
dependencies.  It seems it shouldn't be removing old versions of packages 
as long as there are other packages which depend on it. As Pat mentioned 
KDE 1.1.2 depends on some packages that are no longer in the packages 
system. However they were there when KDE was built.

Building the packages for some ports takes a long time.  On my mac68k 
system it takes about six _weeks_ to build everything that will build.  A 
lot of things change in that amount of time.

>I'm sorry that it came off as it did, Bob.

No problem.  It just sounded like you weren't aware of the packages 
system in your previous posting.  That's why I e-mailed you privately 
questioning your statment.

-bob