Disclaimer / Admission of Guilt: I'm one of the persons who advocates following the policies of the organization whose software I'm using, but, I think I'm about to violate the policy.
Although Jessie has a nut-nutrition package (and I've installed it), it is basically a command line version. Later versions include a GUI based on fltk (1.1.10). So, I plan to compile it to try it out (the cli version is too cumbersome for me, compared to other nutrition packages (including CRON-O-meter which is packaged for Jessie, and will probably be my 2nd choice if I either can't compile nut-nutrition or if the fltk GUI isn't on a par with things like CRON- O-meter. Questions: * I seem to remember that there is a way of (before, during, or after) compiling a software package letting the package manager(s) know for whatever good that does--well, I guess one good would be not allowing dependencies to be removed as long as the nut-nutrition package remains installed). Can anybody discuss or point me to appropriate instructions to update the package managers after installing a compiled package (or suggest some good keywords for a google search)? * Has anybody on this list used nut-nutrition with the (fltk based) GUI, and, if so, is it on a par with things like the CRON-O-meter GUI? * And, if you've used nut-nutrition in either the CLI or GUI based version, have you come across a useful mailing list to discuss nut-nutrition and / or other similar packages? * For extra credit: the compiled nut-nutrition GUI version requires fltk version 1.1.10. That version is available in Jessie, but so is version 1.3.2--I guess determining whether nut-nutrition works with the 1.3.2 version is a trial and error type thing (unless someone knows that fltk 1.3.2 is fully backward compatible with 1.1.10 or that nut-nutrition has already been tested by someone against fltk 1.3.2. Anyone have any clues? Thanks! Randy Kramer PS: As to why I'd like to use the nut-nutrition GUI version instead of CRON-O- meter is that nut-nutrition uses version sr27 of the USDA nutrition database, while CRON-O-meter uses sr23, which is probably about 8 years older. (IIUC, the current version of the USDA nutrition database is sr28.)
