Forgive me for being dense, but running

fink selfupdate
fink update-all

fink choked during the update all on system-tetex.  It put up the notice
in the middle of this process (choking, that is)

WARNING: If you are upgrading system-tetex, you may need to remove other
TeX-related packages such as latex2html and dvipdfm before upgrading.
After the upgrade, you can reinstall those packages.

My question is, if fink already *knows* this, then why

(i) does it handle it automatically; OR if for some reason that's too
complicated,
(ii) doesn't it put up this notice before it tries to compile everything
else; OR
(iii) the authors of the respective packages work it out between them so
this works more smoothly; OR,
(iv) at very least provide a more complete list of packages which it is
necessary to remove.  "such as" is a little on the vague side.

Yes, I KNOW fink is a volunteer project (to which I am not qualified at
present to contribute) and all that.  I'm merely pointing out that this
is an area in which fink could stand a little attention.  TeX-related
applications are bound to be a common thread with a large number of fink
users, so I would think this bit of fairly significant user
unfriendliness might be worth being placed at least sort of high on the
priority list.

Thanks, by the way, to all those who worked hard on 0.4!

David Craig


<http://www.panix.com/~dac/>


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