Kevin van Haaren wrote:
> what about doing a fink remove xfree86-base then an update-all?
>
> man fink indicates the remove doesn't check dependencies so you should
> be able to remove it even if other stuff depends on it.
>
>
Don't know where you saw that: I'm told the man pages and other
docs are error-free.
Here's what you get if you try it.
Information about 1347 packages read in 31 seconds.
dpkg --remove xfree86-base
dpkg: dependency problems prevent removal of xfree86-base:
tcltk-shlibs depends on x11; however:
Package x11 is not installed.
Package xfree86-base which provides x11 is to be removed.
xpdf depends on x11; however:
Package x11 is not installed.
Package xfree86-base which provides x11 is to be removed.
gtk+ depends on x11; however:
Package x11 is not installed.
Package xfree86-base which provides x11 is to be removed.
aalib-shlibs depends on x11; however:
Package x11 is not installed.
Package xfree86-base which provides x11 is to be removed.
oroborus depends on x11; however:
Package x11 is not installed.
Package xfree86-base which provides x11 is to be removed.
hfsutils depends on x11; however:
Package x11 is not installed.
Package xfree86-base which provides x11 is to be removed.
giflib-shlibs depends on x11; however:
Package x11 is not installed.
Package xfree86-base which provides x11 is to be removed.
arts depends on x11; however:
Package x11 is not installed.
Package xfree86-base which provides x11 is to be removed.
ghostscript depends on x11; however:
Package x11 is not installed.
Package xfree86-base which provides x11 is to be removed.
libungif-bin depends on x11; however:
Package x11 is not installed.
Package xfree86-base which provides x11 is to be removed.
dpkg: error processing xfree86-base (--remove):
dependency problems - not removing
Errors were encountered while processing:
xfree86-base
### execution of dpkg failed, exit code 1
Failed: can't remove package(s)
I checked the man page and look, it says it right there. Somehow
I'm sure I'll be told this is my fault as well . . . .
remove package...
The remove command removes packages from the system by
calling
`dpkg --remove'. The current implementation has
several fundamen-
tal flaws. It only works on packages Fink knows about
(i.e. .info
file is present). It doesn't check dependencies. It
makes one dpkg
invocation per packages, thus not allowing dpkg to
reorder accord-
ing to dependencies.
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