[Lazarus] fppkg front end

[dhkblaszyk at zeelandnet.nl]

 On Sat, 14 May 2011 22:38:21 +0200, Graeme Geldenhuys 
 <graemeg.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 14 May 2011 12:34, Joost van der Sluis wrote:
>> But you're lucky, since lnet is installable through fppkg. Maybe we 
>> can
>> add this package itself to the fppkg repository, so it installs lnet
>> automatically.
>
> That sounds like a terrible idea. Automatically installing packages
> just because of other optional packages (gui frontends) than not
> everybody will need, want or use.
 It's called a dependency and unfortunately a package manager cannot do 
 without a dependency on some other networking package. However Michael 
 is working on a networking client that will be supported out of the box 
 in FPC. So no external dependency will be needed finally. Unfortunately 
 this means that the package manager will not be supported for earlier 
 compiler versions, unless lnet is enabled again.

 Regards, Darius