-----Original Message----- From: xemacs-beta-admin(a)xemacs.org [mailto:xemacs-beta-admin＠xemacs.org]On Behalf Of Karl Pflästerer Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 7:32 AM To: xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org Subject: Netinstaller (win32) and package dependencies Hi, in the newsgroup de.comm.software.gnus you could read two postings <Xns93997392EA5A5heinz.c68399gcb(a)mopsz.my-fqdn.de&gt; <bchf68$in5au$1(a)ID-152929.news.dfncis.de&gt; 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 -- My other car's a cdr.

>>>>> "Andy" == Andy Piper <andy(a)xemacs.org&gt; writes: Andy> I'm afraid you would need to implement this yourself. I have Andy> little time or inclination. Lack of time is one thing, but "inclination" is another. This is pretty important. If we don't fix this, how can we say we support Windows?