From: Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: [zippo-workers] Re: ANNOUNCE: DJGPP port of GNU Make 3.79.1 uploaded
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:50:38 +0100
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Hello.

Damian Yerrick wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 30 Jul 2000 15:33:10 +0530, Prashant TR <tr AT eth DOT net> wrote:
>
> >I may have missed a few messages but I have some comments. Now, how
> >would the order of installation matter? AFAIK, there isn't a package
> >which requires to be installed in some *order*. Can you quote an
> >example?
> 
> allegro requires gcc and binutils.
> make requires gcc and binutils.
> gpp requires gcc and binutils.
> gcc and binutils require djdev.
> bash pretty much requires fileutils and textutils.

Sure, these packages have requirements, but for the last example you can
quite happily install fileutils, textutils, bash in order you like, as
long as they are all installed.

Prashant's question is about packages where the order of installation does
matter. There are some - see my other response.

Bye,

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Richard Dawe
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