Re: Notes on OSX 10.5.5
Re: Notes on OSX 10.5.5
- Subject: Re: Notes on OSX 10.5.5
- From: "Benjamin Reed" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 09:30:38 -0400
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 3:51 AM, Jordan K. Hubbard <email@hidden> wrote:
> While certainly not disputing the assertion that splitting X11SDK and
> X11User into two packages ranks right up there with starting the Iraq war
> under false pretenses and contributing substantially to global warming, thus
> accelerating a process that will, inevitably, drown half of civilization,
> can I ask why breaking things up so that they can be updated even more
> frequently considered such a bad thing?
It's not a problem in theory, but it is a problem in practice, such
that they've been brokenly out of sync for 2 XCode releases now. :P
Ultimately, the "fix" is to include X11SDK updates with the OS updates
so that the symlinks remain in sync, in which case they might as well
be a monolithic package anyways. That or having the OS installer
manually fix symlinks in the post-install, which undoes the point of
having things managed through packaging.
The Xquartz packages are great, but it sucks that with 10.5 I was
like, "Finally! Modern (and maintained) X11 in the official OSX
release! We can stop distributing 3rd-party X11 for Fink!" and now
they've been replaced with having to answer an email every week on the
list that the user needs to install the 3rd-party Xquartz release to
fix broken symlinks (or muck about in the system manually -- even
worse) when attempting to build things.
--
Benjamin Reed a.k.a. Ranger Rick
Fink, KDE, and Mac OS X development
Blog: http://www.raccoonfink.com/
Music: http://music.raccoonfink.com/
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