On Fri, 2002-11-22 at 15:03, Mike O'Brien wrote: > I asked how I could upgrade bundle-kde-ssl if it installs > kdemultimedia3, which depends on libxine, which depends on the -threaded > version of X Windows.
Well, in this particular case, you could remove kdemultimedia3 and it's packages, and then continue your upgrade. In the new bundle-kde (and -ssl) in stable, kdemultimedia3 has been removed as a default dependency because of this issue. > My real question is, what's the thinking here? What would be > the "fink-approved" strategy? That is a good question... And depends on how you use X I guess. > If I upgrade X to -threaded, will it break anything but Matlab, > which I don't use? Won't it result in split dependencies, some > (most) packages depending on non-threaded X, and one depending on -threaded > X? I could just tear into things and find out by experiment, but that's > days of compilation with most of fink broken in the interim. As far as I'm aware, -threaded works with everything but matlab. In the future, when xfree86 4.3 is out, X will always be threaded, but the threading code has been reworked so that it shouldn't break things (as I understand it). So long term, threaded is the way to go (or long term, the x packages will provide both). If you need matlab, that's not an option, though... It's up to you. The current threaded packages are a tad hackish but work in 99.9% of the cases. ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
