> Is it because swi-prolog needs to be > installed to be able to compile the packages ?
Yes. Parts of swi-prolog are written in Prolog itself. That is not too surprising, it is just a set of standard libraries. Unfortunately, upstream just made one large package. During the make process, it installs the base system in order to compile the libraries, which are then installed. In Debian, the build must be finished completely before installation. So either the standard libraries become compiled during installation on the users machine, or the Debian build process uses the half-installed-into-a-temporary-directory version of swi-prolog to compile the libraries, which is a major pain as a lot of paths and other variables have to be set. -- |=| Michael Piefel |=| Member of the Debian project -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
