1) As Ben R. said, the problem is in the unstable tree, so it doesn't affect everybody.
2) I may be wrong, but I think that a typical user just wants to be able to run Fink with an external XFree86-4.3 installation, and getting it to work ASAP is paramount for them. Since it's going to take some period of time to get a fix in place, proposing a workaround seems like the way to do it.
In addition, using --force-depends has been officially recommended (in the FAQ, anyway) for switching XFree86 setups--because uninstalling everything that depends on X11 can be a royal pain.
I'm certainly willing to note in future list correspondence that the problem is a mistake.
-- Alexander K. Hansen Levitated Dipole Experiment http://www.psfc.mit.edu/LDX
On Sunday, August 24, 2003, at 07:35 PM, Ben Hines wrote:
On Sunday, August 24, 2003, at 04:15 PM, Benjamin Reed wrote:
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.
Well, the only reason i was angry was that Martin and Alex were giving the "solution" on the list to force-depends the thing, but they didn't really make it sound like a 'mistake'. I also didn't hear anyone else on the list or bugbase piping up who seemed to think it was any sort of problem at all. It should be considered a mistake and a bug, we can't have users doing this every 2 months.
Nothing wrong with breaking things, as long as it is acknowledged that they are broken..
-Ben
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