Netinstaller (win32) and package dependencies
Hi,
in the newsgroup de.comm.software.gnus you could read two postings
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of which the posters had the same problem: they upgraded from a previous
XEmacs version to 21.4.13 and they also fetched the new Gnus package.
So far so good. But as they wanted to start Gnus they had to read:
"library dig not found".
What had happened: dig.el can now be found in net-utils. So they had
also to fetch the new net-utils package. But as the netinstaller
doesn't show anything about package dependencies they were lost. Gnus
requires a lot of packages and the netinstaller does not tell you which
these are.
With package-utils this is no problem as you can are able to mark
required packages.
So IMO it is a essential feature for the netinstaller to be able to cope
with package dependencies. If not we will probably lose some windows
users as they are accustomed to simply use setup.exe to update their
software and everything else happens automagically.
bye
Karl
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