Hi, Johannes! Johannes Winkelmann schrieb:
On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 12:27:16 +0200, Clemens Koller wrote: [...]
Maybe it's worth a simple message from prt-get install and prt-get update which dependencies are not satisfied (yet). [...] I've always like the idea, however as mentioned that would have meant a major change in the user interface, which is something which I didn't want to do at that point in time.
I wouldn't care about the UI/look and feel/whatever, as long as it's optional. I thought about something like a CRUX_VERBOSE=<value> in the environment for users who want more then no information of what's going on.
Since it's impossible for prt-get to tell whether a build error was really due to missing dependencies, a message of warning about omitted dependencies will probably be counter productive for educating folks, since it will a) keep them from thinking on their own, and b) leave them frustrated if the tools suggest a solution and the build keeps failing after following it, with the tool staying silent
I don't ask for tools to suggest anything which could be misleading. I just don't like tools which stay silent and don't tell what they do or don't do. That's the only thing I would welcome here - in prt-get. Otherwise, I dump most stuff to a file and check what happened, when I am back from coffee. Anyway, what other distro would/could you recommend if he/she(*) asks for a distro which is good to get an idea of how the internals of a Linux system work? I have no glue. (*) sw-developers, programmers, engineers and friends. Have fun, -- Clemens Koller _______________________________ R&D Imaging Devices Anagramm GmbH Rupert-Mayer-Str. 45/1 81379 Muenchen Germany http://www.anagramm-technology.com Phone: +49-89-741518-50 Fax: +49-89-741518-19