On Fri, 7 Feb 2003, Benjamin Reed wrote: > > Hrm. > > This worked OK for me when I was building it, but it broke when I tried > getting it through apt to my other machine. Apt ended up > half-installing things and then xfree86-base's checks for an existing > X11 kicked it out. My other machine had my experimental 4.2.99 > threaded packages installed -- I dpkg -r --force-depends'd them, so I > basically had no X at all when I started. > > Why exactly does it depend on xfree86 4.2.1.1? Is it only for the > purposes of upgrading? >
Yes - to avoid having to tell people to dpkg -r --force-depends. -Jeff -- Jeffrey S. Whitaker Phone : (303)497-6313 NOAA/OAR/CDC R/CDC1 FAX : (303)497-6449 325 Broadway Web : http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/~jsw Boulder, CO, USA 80305-3328 Office: Skaggs Research Cntr 1D-124 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
