On Tue, 30 Jul 2002, Brendan Lane Larson wrote: > I noticed when doing a fink list (my fink index includes unstables), > that the following items appear in my list: > > > windowmaker 0.80.0-7 GNUstep (NeXT-like) Window Manager > > windowmaker-dev 0.80.0-7 GNUstep (NeXT-like) Window Manager > > windowmaker-shl 0.80.0-7 GNUstep (NeXT-like) Window Manager
Actually, a wider listing would have shown that the third one there is the '-shlibs' version, not '-shl' :) These are splitoff packages. Based on the same source download, these allow you to separate a package into functional components: shared libraries in -shlibs, development bindings in -dev, binary executables in -bin, etc. One benefit this leads to is the ability to run concurrent versions of a package, so if e.g. some things depend on a particular version of say the 'db' package while others depend on different parts, you can have both installed simultaneously without distrupting the chain of dependant packages.: "foo depends on db3, bar depends on db4", but now you can have both db3-shlibs and db4-shlibs and dbN-bin and you're fine. Make sense? [I think this is a FAQ, by the way. Have you taken a look at the list archives? Several of your questions have had versions asked in the recent past and should be available if you skim/search through the archives. :] -- Chris Devers ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: Dice - The leading online job board for high-tech professionals. Search and apply for tech jobs today! http://seeker.dice.com/seeker.epl?rel_code=31 _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
