At Sun, 8 Sep 2013 10:06:46 -0400, Greg Hendershott wrote: > >> Let me try downloading some older package as an experiment. > > OK so the package I picked as a test is "bcrypt" because it looks both > small and interesting. > > With Racket 5.3.5 (happened to be set as my default version when I tried): > > $ raco pkg install bcrypt > The following packages are listed as dependencies, but are not > currently installed: > base > Would you like to install them via your package indices? [Yn] n > raco pkg install: missing dependencies > missing packages: > base > > It prompted me to install "base" as a dependency. For 5.3.5. Really, > the "main-distribution" package, "base" --- doesn't 5.3.5 already have > the equivalent of "base"?
Yes, but v5.3.5 doesn't know that it already has the equivalent of "base"... > That didn't seem right, so I chose "n". > > If I had chosen "Y", would a "base" package have been installed for 5.3.5? Yes, but the "base" package is empty for v5.3.5. ____________________ Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users
