I'd say to make the URL be
http://fink.sourceforge.net/doc/users-guide/packages.php#bin-exceptions
That seques right into how to install from source.
On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, Ben Hines wrote:
>
> On Thursday, March 13, 2003, at 07:29 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote:
>
> > I put an entire section in the Users Guide pages to this effect
> > already.
> > Maybe i'll just link to that in the FAQ.
> >
> > FinkCommander displays the .info and .patch files now if you
> > double-click
> > on a package, so one can easily see the licensing. It might be worth
> > suggesting a License column.
> >
>
> How this read, have a better URL to put in?
>
> --- apt-0.5.4/cmdline/apt-get.cc.orig 2003-03-13 18:01:35.000000000
> -0800
> +++ apt-0.5.4/cmdline/apt-get.cc 2003-03-13 18:14:13.000000000 -0800
> @@ -281,7 +281,13 @@
> if (Cache[Targ].CandidateVerIter(Cache).end() == true)
> {
> if (Targ->ProvidesList == 0)
> - out << _("but it is not installable");
> + {
> + out << _("but it is not installable. For Fink users, ");
> + out << _("this often means that you have attempted ");
> + out << _("to install a package from the binary distribution ");
> + out << _("which depends on a \"Restrictive\" package. ");
> + out << _("See <http://fink.sourceforge.net/faq> for more
> information.");
> + }
> else
> out << _("but it is a virtual package");
> }
>
> -Ben
>
>
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