>Number:         18732
>Category:       pkg
>Synopsis:       chat/zircon has a most annoying interactive install procedure
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    pkg-manager
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Oct 19 13:44:00 PDT 2002
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Greg A. Woods
>Release:        pkgsrtc-current 2002/10/18
>Organization:
Planix, Inc.; Toronto, Ontario; Canada
>Environment:
System: NetBSD

>Description:

	chat/zircon has a very horrible interactive installer that
	requires connecting to your X11 server as root!

>How-To-Repeat:

	try installing by running "make install" as a normal user.

>Fix:

	this isn't really a fix -- just the beginnings of a warning

Index: chat/zircon/DESCR
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/master/m-NetBSD/main/pkgsrc/chat/zircon/DESCR,v
retrieving revision 1.1
diff -c -r1.1 DESCR
*** chat/zircon/DESCR	31 Oct 2001 19:42:45 -0000	1.1
--- chat/zircon/DESCR	17 Oct 2002 19:24:21 -0000
***************
*** 11,13 ****
--- 11,16 ----
  the power of tcl/tk and not wonderful programming (the programming
  is wonderful of course, but that is an aside).  The tcl/tk system
  is excellent, and you need it on your machine NOW!
+ 
+ WARNING:  You must run the installer as root with $DISPLAY set so that
+ root can open a window!
Index: chat/zircon/Makefile
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/master/m-NetBSD/main/pkgsrc/chat/zircon/Makefile,v
retrieving revision 1.5
diff -c -r1.5 Makefile
*** chat/zircon/Makefile	2 Jul 2002 11:30:43 -0000	1.5
--- chat/zircon/Makefile	17 Oct 2002 19:24:48 -0000
***************
*** 20,25 ****
--- 20,27 ----
  		< ${WRKSRC}/installer/unix.tcl.bak \
  		> ${WRKSRC}/installer/unix.tcl
  
+ # XXX ARGH!!! This is _MOST_EXTREMELY_LAME_
+ #
  do-install:
  	@${ECHO} ""
  	@${ECHO} "Please just click <Install> and <Quit> to ensure proper installation."
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: