Thanks for the info, Alexander. After running into similar problems using dselect and db3 (won't allow proper installation & keeps asking me to select dependencies I've already selected), I've removed all except the base packages & a few others that don't depend on anything (like bash).
As much as I'm enjoying playing around with some of these packages (especially the database-related ones), the associated time & hassles spent installing & configuring them properly is getting to be more than I can justify. I need to focus my time on things that work. Thanks again, On 05/30/2002 05:15, "Alexander K. Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The version of libxml2 that I'm using (2.4.22-1, from unstable) doesn't have > any direct dependence on X11 (xfree86), but its dependencies may. > > Find out for sure which package needs X11 and then look at its .info file to > see whether it is under the Depends: field, which means that it's a runtime > dependency, or BuildDepends:, which means that you only need xfree86 > libraries for compilation purposes. If it's the latter, then try installing > it from the binary distro. > >> Hi - >> >> Each time in the last couple of days I've attempted to do an update-all, I >> keep getting asked to install some variant of xfree86, which I do not want >> to install. I don't have a problem with xfree86, it's just something I don't >> have time to play around with right now. >> >> I believe that there is some dependency between the libxml2 package, which >> was installed as a part of daemonic, and xfree86. >> >> Is there a way I can get around this? > > -- > Alexander K. Hansen > Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University > Levitated Dipole Experiment > MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center, 175 Albany Street, NW17-219 > Cambridge, MA 02139-4213 > Phone: 617-252-1818 Fax: 208-988-4057 > -- Michael Frankel Wizard Consulting Group (888) 291-3419 / Fax (866) 422-7542 http://www.wizardconsultinggroup.com _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
