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On Jan 20, 2005, at 9:47 AM, Christian Schaffner wrote:
Dear Fink Developers
We recommend more and more often to use the debfoster fink package to keep track of unneeded packages on a Fink installation. One problem that users are facing with debfoster is that it asks to remove too many packages during the first run: It asks to remove essential packages, and "important" packages (e.g. apt), and even debfoster itself. If a user is not carfull the system might end up unusable due to e.g. a missing apt while running with UseBinaryDist.
There are two things that were discussed on #fink today to solve this problem:
1. Let the package 'debfoster' depend on apt.
and
2.
Install a default '/sw/var/lib/debfoster/keepers' file with the debfoster package (or with the base-file package). It should have the names of all essential and important packages and debfoster itself as entries.
The package should of cause check for an already existing keepers file (probably through the ConfFiles field in the info file).
I wonder, is it possible to have a keepers.local file, which if existed would be used in addition to the packaged one? this way fink would have control over the essential packages, but the local admin could also add packages that they feel should not be removed. If not, the conffile (maybe symlinked to /sw/etc?) works for me.
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