Subversion install gripe

[Lan Barnes]

On Sat, Oct 16, 2004 at 07:13:18PM -0700, David M. Cook wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 08:57:52PM -0700, Andrew P. Lentvorski, Jr. wrote:
> > And this is why I avoid subversion:
> > 
> > Andrew-Lentvorskis-Computer:~ andrewl$ fink install svn
> > <lots of crud deleted>
> > The following 33 additional packages will be installed:
> >  apache2 apache2-common apache2-dev apache2-mpm-worker apr apr-common 
> > apr-shlibs autoconf2.5 automake1.8 daemonic db42 db42-shlibs expat 
> > expat-shlibs
> >  gdbm3 gmp libtool14 libtool14-shlibs libxml2 libxml2-bin 
> > libxml2-shlibs m4 neon24 neon24-shlibs python23 python23-shlibs 
> > python23-socket svn-shlibs
> >  swig swig-shlibs tcltk tcltk-dev tcltk-shlibs
> 
> That's a fink issue.  They are bad about including a lot of unnecessary
> optional stuff in the build.  I use darwinports instead.
> 
> Dave
> 
> 

Could you enlarge on this for someone who might want to install
subversion and doesn't know (or care) what fink is?

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Lan Barnes                    lan at falleagle.net
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