Ben Hines wrote:
Telling every fink user to do this is idiotic.
Why do you write this to me? I complained to the maintainer immediately when this came out (*), but although I can imagine several solutions of the problem myself, I'll leave it to him to fix it. In the meantime, I will go on helping others if I have the time.
BTW, there *is* a related FAQ: #4.8 http://fink.sourceforge.net/faq/comp-general.php#node-exists
Similar problems have been discussed many times, and until the great rewriting of the dep engine happens, there seems to be no satisfactory solution. I recall the xfree86-upgrade package, for example, which just does the force-removing via a shell script.
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Martin
(*) This was already a week ago. And there is another bug I mentioned then, which prevents installing this package remotely when you are not logged in at the console.
I'm sorry, but I just moved into a new house yesterday evening. I've gotten plenty of mail on the subject, including your hack to not need to call XFree86 in the package, but haven't had time to look into implementing things yet. Ben made a suggestion on IRC that may work (involving fixing the control file of the installed, broken xfree86 package) but will take some testing.
Yes, it's a problem, and yes I will fix it, but Fink is not my job and Fink is lower priority than keeping the rain off my head. =)
Please chill out, it's called unstable for a reason. I made a mistake, I will fix it when I have more than 3 minutes at a time to dig into weird packaging dep issues. In the meantime, this is a valid workaround.
-- We put a lot of thought into our defaults. We like them. If we didn't, we would have made something else be the default. So keep your cotton-pickin' hands off our defaults. Don't touch. Consider them mandatory. "Mandatory defaults" has a nice ring to it.
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