On 6/5/07, Ingo Thies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > Since last week I experience troubles with inconsistent dependencies > again. This time the packeges causing problems are > > esound-bin > esound-common > esound-shlibd > (all updated from 0.2.35-8 to 0.2.36-1) > > docbook-utils > (newly installed) > > and again system-tetex. > > I am wondering that I am possibly the only one here who discovers such > problems since I did not see any messages about this problem. Is this > again due incomplete migration from the unstable to the stable tree, and I > should simply wait for the remaining packages to be migrated? >
Well, we don't really have a way to know, because you haven't posted a literal transcript of your errors, so we can't tell what dependencies are being reported as inconsistent, and in what context. It's possible to get such errors on batch installs because the dependency engine gets confused, too. > What is system-tetex exactly used for? What does "placeholder package" > mean exactly? It seems that it can never be installed if there is an > existing tetex installation (at least on my computer), und therefore the > occurrence of system-tetex in the list of packages to be installed/updated > seems to be a safe indicator for trouble with dependencies. > > > Ingo > > system-tetex is what you install if you have a tetex that doesn't come from Fink. "placeholder" literally means "takes the place of a Fink package" in this case. Indeed, you aren't supposed to install it if you have a Fink tetex. -- Alexander K. Hansen akh AT finkproject DOT org Fink User Liaison and Documenter ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
