On 05 Apr 2007, at 05:05, Jean-François Mertens wrote:

> There are a large number of pkgs still depending on mysql14 (or  
> even older ..)
> Whenever any one of those has to be rebuilt (upgraded), mysql(-ssl)  
> gets swapped
> out, so to restore the installation, one needs to "rm -fR %p/var/ 
> mysql" before
> reinstalling the pkg.
> This is completely wrong.
> Users should not have to wonder whether or not they can safely  
> ignore error msgs,
> _ and should not even be confronted with error msgs in such  
> situations purely
> caused by fink itself.
>
> JF


PS : and this is just for a user who has no db, and nothing in %p/var/ 
mysql  !
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