On Dec 16, 2003, at 12:04 AM, Martin Costabel wrote:
Except that in the case at hand mutt was not installed at all. Only its config files were left, beause it was not purged. I would consider this at least counter-intuitive behaviour (not to say bug) that fink in this case refuses to install (and doesn't tell why), because it takes its information about what version is the latest available one from some body count in dpkg's database and not from its own.
dpkg's database is the only database of installed files. Fink does not keep one. (nor could it, currently) Fink's own database only tracks info files (for source building). Fink can't know what is installed without trusting dpkg because users can install via apt-get or dpkg directly.
We do a 'fink purge' command for purging configuration files..
-Ben
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