On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Max Horn wrote:

> One serious problem I see with swig (if you have unstable enabled - so
> this is not meant as an argument against moving it to stable, I guess)
> is that it defaults to install python23 right now (at least it does
> here) due to a versioned dependency on python. I.e. if you just "fink
> install swig" it tell you:
>
> The following package will be installed or updated:
>   python
> The following 3 additional packages will be installed:
>   python23 python23-shlibs python23-socket
>
> Luckily I can do "fink install swig python22", but for the average
> user, installing svn-client or swig will install python23, even if
> python22 is already installed, which is IMHO not a good thing.
>

Max: It's not the versioned dependency (python >= 2.2.1-8) that causes
this - it's the fact that python22 contains python-2.2.2 and python23
contains python-2.3, so fink is just choosing the highest version number
available.  I think the reason fink tries to install python23, even if
python22 is already installed, is that you didn't have the python-2.2.2
splitoff installed.

-Jeff

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