Your understanding is absolutely correct.  The only reason to have them
around is to save time if you uninstall a package and later want
to reinstall it.

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Alexander K. Hansen
Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University visiting MIT Plasma
Science and Fusion Center
Levitated Dipole Experiment
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Cambridge, MA  02139-4213

On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, exu wrote:

> the .deb files in /sw/fink/10.2/unstable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc are
> the pkg files fink uses once the source is compiled, correct? if so can
> i safely delete these to free up disk space (it is an issue). i
> understand that once i delete them i would then need to dl and compile
> if i ever wanted to install again.
>
> thanks for putting up with a newbie
>
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