[fpc-pascal] FPC 2.4.2 source

[Rainer Stratmann]

Am Saturday 21 May 2011 11:47:28 schrieb Bernd Kreuss:
> On 21.05.2011 11:29, Mattias Gaertner wrote:
> > On Sat, 21 May 2011 12:12:59 +0300
> >
> > "Juha (gmail)" <juha.manninen62 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> [...]
> >>
> >>> When trying to update the new lazarus and fpc binaries with deb
> >>> packages I got in trouble with dependancies. Then I abort it.
> >
> > What troubles?
>
> The thing I have never understood is why it split into a myriad of
> different .deb files while it really only needs to be the following:
>
> * lazarus.deb
> * fpc.deb
> * fpc-source.deb
>
> and maybe even alternatively for lazy people like me something like
>
> * lazarus-complete.deb (provides: lazarus, fpc, fpc-source)
>
> I'm not sure about the exact entries in the deb control files (provides,
> depends, replaces, etc.) to achieve this magic but I think it should be
> possible, shouldn't it?

For userfriednly reasons it would be the best that there are less or no 
dependencies.
It is for userfriendly reasons better to overwrite all config files and have a 
working solution than to fight with the huge dependencies.

> Bernd
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