On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 11:36:43PM -0500, Victor Eijkhout wrote: > At 5:59 PM +0100 3/15/05, Martin Costabel wrote: > > >>I moved my /sw directory out of the way, and reran the fink installer. > >> > >>Reading Package Lists... > >> Building Dependency Tree... > >> The following extra packages will be installed: > >> xfree86-shlibs > >> The following packages will be REMOVED: > >> system-xfree86 system-xfree86-shlibs > > Ok, let me ask this explicitly: how there be a package to be removed > if I've renamed the /sw directory? There should be nothing installed, > right?
system-* packages are truly "virtual"...whenever [whatever they represent] is present they spring into existence in an installed state and when that underlying thing goes away they appear in an uninstalled state. You cannot use fink itself to manipulate them. This is explained in FAQ 8.8: http://fink.sourceforge.net/faq/usage-general.php#virtpackage > >> The following NEW packages will be installed: > >> xfree86 xfree86-shlibs > > > >Are you really sure you want to have this? If you don't want to > >compile your own version of xfree86-4.4.0 or of x.org's X11, it is > >preferable to install Apple's X11 packages (and to forbid Fink > >categorically to install any X11 related package). > > Does Apple's X11 tolerate fvwm2 and does it work in full screen mode? > Ages ago it didn't. (I think) I've used fink's fvwm2 with Apple X11 fullscreen with no troubles ever since 10.3 has been publicly available. dan -- Daniel Macks [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.netspace.org/~dmacks ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
