At 19:25 Uhr -0500 05.11.2002, David R. Morrison wrote:
Indeed. However at least for gzip and bzip2, we could consider dropping them from the list of essential packages. Both tools are provided by the OS now, and are not likely to be removed from the OS (and if they were we could still make them essential again in the future). Since both are only used as tools (yeah, bzip2 also has a lib, but fink itself is not making use of that), this should be simple to achieve...> In fact, bzip2 should be split off since it has adylib and header...Yes, and a similar remark applies to several other "essential" packages like gettext and ncurses.However, making changes to essential packages without breaking things is tricky, to put it mildly, and I've yet to hear anyone propose an upgrade strategy which did not result in immediate cries of "that won't work because...".
The situation is very differnt for ncurses and tar and other packages though (BTW, Chris, I will look at your modified ncurses package when I get home).
Cheers,
Max
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