Re: More JDE woes.

Valdis> On Mon, 28 Aug 2000 17:37:06 +0900, "Stephen J. Turnbull" Valdis> <turnbull(a)sk.tsukuba.ac.jp&gt; said: Valdis> I still see that as a potential horrorshow - the sysadmin Valdis> installs the most recent SUMO, a user gets his own copy of Valdis> package XYZ, which blows chunks until you discover you Valdis> need to install ABC, byte-compile, install DEF, then XYZ, Valdis> then byte-compile again. I still don't see what to do about that without "truly insane dependency checking." :-( A cure worse than the disease IMO, given that the only real remedy for a failed dependency would be to prohibit installation. Nor would it be really better than what we have now AFAICT; at least once you get package-get running, updating packages is pretty easy. Users who are updating their own suite of packages had better know what they're doing in any environment. If they really can't use what's publically available on the system, they're vulnerable to version skew no matter how you slice it. Valdis> Umm.. many moons ago, when I tried to build packages, I'd Valdis> not be able to convince them they needed to *run* from Valdis> /usr/local/yaddayadda, but that a 'make install' should Valdis> place them in /local/stage/yaddayadda, Oh. I don't see a problem offhand, but I don't do it that way so I'll just leave it at that. -- University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences Tel/fax: +81 (298) 53-5091 _________________ _________________ _________________ _________________ What are those straight lines for? "XEmacs rules."