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Kevin Horton wrote:
<snip> | | It certainly would be nice to have fink automatically deal with this | situation. I have seen discussions before about various ways to do | this, but no one was ever able to come up with a perfect solution, so | nothing is done. But I believe this is a big enough problem that even | an imperfect solution may be better than no solution at all. | Hello Kevin.
While I can understand your frustration and I certainly agree that it would be a handy feature you are touching on a very serious subject here. As you know Fink has one golden rule and that is that we do not touch anything outside /sw. There are some very special arrangements we have made, mostly out of necessity when we touch something outside /sw there is usually no other way to make sure that some feature or supplying software works properly. This touches the subject of X11 and Applications that are supplied by Fink.
I do believe that anyone that builds things from source should be aware that he/she might have some conflicting libraries installed in /usr/local. I also agree that we could spit out a warning ala "I am going to build blah, did you move your /usr/local, are you sure it is empty?". I, personally, would not be happy with a solution where Fink touches this. Simply because it "stretches" a rule which we always have been very, very strict about.
I agree 100% that the default behavior should be to not touch /usr/local. But, if I understand correctly, none of the Apple supplied software should be in /usr/local. This would only be other user installed software. If the fink team can't find a way to make Fink ignore /usr/local when building things, then an optional, user selectable behavior to automatically temporarily move /usr/local out of the way appears to be better than the current situation.
It seems a shame to throw out a potentially useful improvement purely on philosophical grounds. If this change truly could cause serious problems, then it is a bad idea. But let's at least discuss what those problems could be before we throw the idea out.
Kevin Horton
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