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Missing dependency (Attn: links, w3m maintainers) (Was Re: ossl 0.9.7 is still needed by some apps)
- From: Igor Peshansky <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: Joel Rubin <jmrubin at nerdshack dot com>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com, cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 15:30:09 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Missing dependency (Attn: links, w3m maintainers) (Was Re: ossl 0.9.7 is still needed by some apps)
- References: <886l039vet5t1o555mg14a39eer5k86hrn@entropy.org>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Wed, 28 Mar 2007, Joel Rubin wrote:
> I decided to clean up my cygwin setup and got rid of some things and
> reinstalled stuff. I found out that the current versions of two of the
> text-only browsers, links and w3m, won't run unless you have openssl097
> which is, unless you uncheck the hide box, invisible in setup.
>
> Doing a Google search, I see that this has been a problem in the past
> with other packages.
Yes, this is a missing dependency issue. Since openssl is now pointing to
a new version, and these packages have not been recompiled, they need to
put openssl097 into their list of dependencies instead. Thanks for the
report.
I'm cc'ing the cygwin-apps list, where such issues are usually discussed.
Package maintainers, please note.
Igor
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