I recently switched from a trouble-free source-only distribution (only because I wanted to use /Fink instead of /sw) to now primarily using the binary distribution (no way I'm compiling KDE from scratch!).
Everything has gone fine, except for one item that I couldn't figure out, which is regarding the -shlibs and -bin splitoff packages. I understand what they are there for, but I think something weird is happening in the binary distro that is causing them to be handled rather strangely. When I performed installations from source, if a package required something like imlib, it would depend on the package "imlib", which would in turn depend on "imlib-bin" and "imlib-shlibs". In the binary distro, it appears that some packages depend directly on the "-bin" and "-shlibs" packages, which continually cause "couldn't install that package because such-and-such a file already exists in another package which is already installed" errors. I know how to remedy this (although dselect does not), but I figured I would report it in case a) it is considered a bug or b) someone cared to set me straight as to something I am missing. Thanks again and keep up the great work, Mike _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas - http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm?source=osdntextlink _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
