First off, a brief suggestion -- if you're primary concern is with stability, CVS access is not recommendable, simply because it is for officially "unstable" packages. Of course, a number, or even the majority, of so-called unstable packages in Fink run very reliably, it is not really guaranteed, in my understanding. Anybody old on this list please correct me if I'm wrong here.
I thought the behavior of dselect was a known issue. Sometimes the screen is a mishmash of characters (character graphics, Minitel-like). When I change to the list of packages the screen recovers. Sometimes the index (menu) screen is normal and at other times it is a mishmash.I'm not sure how well known it is. I've never experienced such a symptom on my machine ... Could anybody else on this list give a lead about this?
As for the following problem related to imlib, there seems to be a real problem with 0.5.1.cvs. You may want to check out its detail on Fink-Devel archive. I think it will be fixed sooner or later (or even already).
Again, my best suggestion is that if your primary concern is stability, CVS access is not right way to go. Unstable packakges accessible via CVS are more or less experimental, "bleeding-edge" releases, if not beta testing. It is kind of exceptional, and suggestve of higher quality of development, that even such packages are reliable in most of past releases. So, please don't expect too much about it.
Other symptoms. I wanted to remove mysql because I don't use it and it is part of OS X now. I cannot and the suggestion is to reinstall and then remove, but I cannot reinstall. When I attempt to install, I get the following messages:
Failed: Can't resolve dependency "libxml2-shlibs (= 2.4.30-1)" for package "libxml2-bin-2.4.30-1" (no matching packages/versions found)
If I try to reinstall gnumeric, for instance, I get a similar dependency failure:
Failed: Can't resolve dependency "imlib-shlibs (= 1.9.14-2)" for package "imlib-1.9.14-2" (no matching packages/versions found)
It does not matter whether I use dselect or "fink" from the command line.
For this matter, we beg your understanding.
Cheers,
Kow
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