From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB798BC69 for ; Sun, 5 Aug 2007 12:38:30 +0200 (CEST) Received: from smtp.syd.people.net.au (smtp.syd.people.net.au [218.214.225.98]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with SMTP id l75AcSM6018869 for ; Sun, 5 Aug 2007 12:38:29 +0200 Received: (qmail 5583 invoked from network); 5 Aug 2007 10:38:42 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO hendrix.mega-nerd.net) (218.214.64.136) by smtp.syd.people.net.au with SMTP; 5 Aug 2007 10:38:42 -0000 Received: from hendrix (hendrix [192.168.200.99]) by hendrix.mega-nerd.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 50BC62FEA1 for ; Sun, 5 Aug 2007 20:38:27 +1000 (EST) Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2007 20:38:27 +1000 From: Erik de Castro Lopo To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] ANNOUNCE: Status of OCaml in Fedora Message-Id: <20070805203827.86c531b6.mle+ocaml@mega-nerd.com> In-Reply-To: <1186308557.9925.125.camel@rosella.wigram> References: <20070804150958.GA20327@furbychan.cocan.org> <200708050208.02550.jon@ffconsultancy.com> <1186284732.9925.76.camel@rosella.wigram> <20070805143108.5d3e06ff.mle+ocaml@mega-nerd.com> <1186308557.9925.125.camel@rosella.wigram> Organization: Erik Conspiracy Secret Labs X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.3.1 (GTK+ 2.10.11; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 46B5A8A4.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail . ensmp . fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; ocaml:01 ocaml:01 dependencies:01 gentoo:01 wrote:01 caml-list:01 binary:02 binary:02 installer:03 debian:04 erik:04 erik:04 optimized:04 install:05 tries:07 skaller wrote: > Nope. There's no way to do it. This simply tries to install the > *binary* packages required. You can't autobuild dependencies > with apt, I've already investigated this. Debian apt is designed to be a *binary* package installer. If you want to build all your packages from source your should be running Gentoo or one of the other source distributions. Erik -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Erik de Castro Lopo ----------------------------------------------------------------- "C++ is a language strongly optimized for liars and people who go by guesswork and ignorance." -- Erik Naggum