I can do it.  Should it go in the FAQ (as a preemptive strike) or
elsewhere?

On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 10:07, David R. Morrison wrote:
> Here's something which I wish we were documenting properly.
> 
> Briefly, there are a handful of packages which exist in the stable tree, 
> but which we do not distribute in binary form for licensing reasons.
> A current list of these can be found in the CVS module "scripts", at
> scripts/bindist/excludes.  They include gnuplot, tetex-texmf, and pdflib,
> among others.
> 
> There are other packages which *are* available in binary form which 
> depend on these, but if you try to install them using apt-get, dselect,
> or a FinkCommander binary install, you get an error message due to
> the missing packages.
> 
> This needs to be explained to users.  The fact that they then need to
> use "fink install foo" to install the missing package before going back
> to the binary installation needs to be explained.  And the fact that
> they will need the Developer Tools before running "fink install foo"
> also needs to be explained.
> 
> Any takers?
> 
>   -- Dave
> 
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