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Re: Packages removed from frozen



On Mon, Feb 07, 2000 at 01:14:02PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> >>"Rob" == Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu> writes:
> 
>  Rob> Is this really a release-critical bug?  It's just the nature of the
>  Rob> rscheme package.  You can't build rscheme unless rscheme is
>  Rob> installed.  That will probably be fixed in the future, but at most,
> 
>         Could one reason be that it can't be built from source? 

But it can be built from source - it just needs itself installed first. 
Several packages have this problem; while you could remove SML, PM3 and Free 
Pascal without extreme pain, I think removing gcc might cause some problems.

-- 
David Starner - dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org
Only a nerd would worry about wrong parentheses with
square brackets. But that's what mathematicians are.
   -- Dr. Burchard, math professor at OSU


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