Hello Fink developers, I have a question about Fink's interation with other package installers. (Apologies in advance if one of the other Fink lists is more appropriate for this question...).
I installed TeXShop (http://www.uoregon.edu/~koch/texshop/texshop.html) on my Powerbook. To do so, I had to use a nifty package manager called i-Installer (http://www.rna.nl/ii.html) to install a few things TeXShop requires. Among other things, I installed recent versions of Ghostscript and ImageMagick. The question: is it possible to explicitly inform Fink (or FinkCommander) about the existence of these packages when doing a Fink-based install? I ask because in some cases (but not others) Fink does not see these packages when it does a dependency check, and prompts me to install Fink versions instead. A specific example: pstoedit-3.33 depends (IIRC) on both Ghostscript and ImageMagick. For the first dependency, I got multiple options: install GS from the Fink repository, or use one of several "placeholders" for a manually installed version. (I verified with the author of i-Installer that there are stubs for his packages of GS and TeX.) For the second dependency, though, I don't get any option to use a manually installed version of IM -- so I had to install Fink's version to get pstoedit to work. Fortunately I haven't experienced any problems from having two versions of IM installed simultaneously (in different places), but is there a cleaner way to do this? Thanks in advance, Heywood __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search - Find what you’re looking for faster http://search.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. Build and deploy apps & Web services for Linux with a free DVD software kit from IBM. Click Now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1356&alloc_id=3438&op=click _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
