On 1/18/07, Michael Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 11:00:53AM -0500, Alexander Hansen wrote: > > As I said, in your installation of matplotlib-py24, you've generated > > binaries of it and its dependencies, and so you should be able to use > > aptitude or debfoster or deborphan to handle the orphaned packages. > > Right, but my (limited) understanding of aptitude is that it must have > been used to originally install the package for its removal function to > work. Perhaps this is wrong. If not then presumably it won't work with > source fink installs since the .deb is installed by a simple dkpg -i. >
That may be true: I'm not sure about that, since I've been using debfoster (aptitude actually broke in the 10.4-transitional -> 10.4 update and has not been fixed as of yet). The latter just uses dpkg's information and manual input to deal with orphaning. > Does apt-get remove of a package that's been installed from source not > do any harm? I had assumed that packages that had been installed from > source should be removed with fink remove. > Nope, you can use either. 'fink remove --recursive' actually just calls 'apt-get remove' > Clearly I need to do some reading/testing. I really just wanted to know > if the correct use of aptitude in Fink was a FAQ. > > -- Mike > -- Alexander K. Hansen (akh) Fink Documenter (still) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
