On Wednesday, March 6, 2002, at 11:55 , Martin Costabel wrote:
> On mercredi, mars 6, 2002, at 06:44 , [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> I do have all the tarballs. So maybe this is a better question: >> What if I remove *all* of fink's .debs? That's probably a dpkg >> question, too. Will fink/dpkg get confused? Or, as long as I do >> have all the original source tarballs, are the .deb files merely >> time-savers should I need to re-install something? Or maybe I'll >> move them out of the way myself and see what happens.... > > You will see that you don't need to keep any .debs (nor tarballs > if you are on a fast net connection). > > If you get the binaries via apt-get, you won't have any tarballs > or .debs, in general, anyway. And it is one of the nicest > features of fink that you can mix "fink install", "sudo apt-get > install", and "dselect" freely without anyone of them getting > confused. Thanks! That's the answer I was looking for. :-) I'll keep all the source tarballs (all of us *read* more code than we *write*, don't we?), but I'm all for reduced clutter whenever possible. Thanks again, Dan -- This email impairs your ability to operate heavy machinery. <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
