1. The xfree86 package itself has obsolete error messages:
You have an existing X11 installation in /usr/X11R6 and/or /etc/X11. This package refuses to overwrite these. Remove them, then tell Fink to install xfree86 again. (The package won't be recompiled.) If you want to keep your X11 installation, install system-xfree86 resp. system-xtools instead to make this known to Fink's package system.
There hasn't been an installable system-xfree86 for quite a while, and system-xtools went extinct shortly after the last ice age or so. This should be fixed in any case.
2. Users are right in experiencing some hard feelings when Fink downloads 100MB of sources, compiles for 5 hours and then says "Well, you probably didn't want this anyway, just throw it away". We should find a way to do the check at the beginning, before downloading and compiling xfree86. Here is a proposition:
Have xfree86 Depend or BuildDepend (it is too late in the evening now for me to see clearly which one would be better) on a new package "xfree86-check" which does nothing than running the current Pre- and PostInstScripts from the xfree86 package. If this package is endowed with a somewhat more detailed error message, with references from or hints to FAQ#9.11, or maybe even details like "you don't have /usr/X11R6/include/Xlib.h, reinstall the X11SDK.pkg from Apple's dweveloper tools", I think we would save a lot of time and energy for a lot of people.
-- Martin
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