Re: Package system

[Stefan van der Walt]

On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 12:51:28AM +0200, Søren Hauberg wrote:
> And your question, ...
> Well, the basic idea is that you inform the user that FFMpeg is needed
> (there's a field in DESCRIPTION called SystemRequirements for this), but
> the package system doesn't check it. So to check if FFMpeg is installed
> you need some autoconfig magic. This kinda sucks, but checking if a
> library is installed is hard, so I don't think octave should try to do
> configure's job.

I agree.  Thanks for explaining exactly what SystemRequirements means.

Stéfan