Re: gEDA-user: Preliminary release of Install CD

["Patrick Doyle" <wpdster@xxxxxxxxx>]

> > I'm obstinate...
> >
> > I really didn't want to do a
> >
> > $ sudo yum install *-devel
> >
> > (whatever the correct syntax would be).  I didn't want to install
> > OpenOffice.org-devel, ogg-devel, this-devel, that-devel.  Instead, I
> > ran the installer once, saw that it was missing two packages, by
> > virtue of missing autopoint and gtk-config, and that it wasn't happy
> > with my old installation of wxGTK.  So I:
> >
> > $ sudo yum whatprovides autopoint
> > $ sudo yum whatprovides gtk-config
> >
> > followed by
> >
> > $ sudo yum install gettext-devel
> > $ sudo yum install gtk+-devel
>
> Any reason why you just didn't let the installer do it for you?  Of
> course you are welcome to install the dependencies in any way you
> want.  I just wonder what considerations you had in mind when you
> installed the dependencies using yum instead of from the CD.  That
> might be interesting info moving forward.
In addition to being obstinate, I am baselessly paranoid (which, for
sheer personal enjoyment, is the only way to be paranoid).  I would
rather install the FC5 sanctioned versions of the required packages
than whatever random virus infected version is on your CD.  I warned
you, my paranoia is baseless.  Fortunately, it is also pragmatic --
the wxGTK available from FC5 doesn't provide "wx-config", so I used
the version from the CD.

More seriously, if I had been doing some development work that
required gettext-devel and/or gtk+-devel, I would have already had
them installed.  If there were any version differences between them
and what's on your CD, then my FC5 test wouldn't have found that.

--wpd


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