Dear all,
When I upgrade Fink, I sometimes end up with some packages being archived (for example, I currently have apt-dev, giflib, giflib-bin, libungif-shlibs, mysql, mysql-client and qt3-dev labelled as archived).
In order to keep my system as slim as possible (you never can have enough room on your HD), I'd like to remove these packages if I don't need them.
You cannot remove them, they are already removed. "Archived" is a term used by FinkCommander for packages which are not installed, but for which a compiled package (deb) exists on your disk.
Is it safe to do so? Should I use remove or force remove?
Non of these. If you want to remove the deb file, you have to find it in one of the binary-darwin-powerpc directories below /sw/fink/dists. You can do something like this automatically with "fink cleanup". I don't know if FinkCommander has such a command, too.
But you should probably look at the packages individually before removing the deb files. In your list, for example, you can safely remove the deb file of libungif-shlibs, because I bet you have giflib-shlibs installed, and the two are functionally equivalent. OTOH, you don't want to remove the qt3-dev deb file, because qt3-dev is (probably by mistake, but anyway) a build-time dependency of some packages. On my disk, it takes the huge space of 788 bytes, but when its installation is needed and you removed the deb file, you are in for a 3 hour compilation, because all of qt3 will be rebuilt.
-- Martin
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