On 12/5/05, Ersatz Sophist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings, > > I started with fink on jaguar, and upgraded fink--without ever doing > a clean reinstall--with each OS upgrade to Tiger. Browsing through > the packages (via fink commander) that I have installed, I see many > that are listed as simply "provided" with no version information, and > some that are "provided" with a version information under the > "latest" column. I wonder if these latter packages (with version > info) are legacy packages that were installed by fink because they > were missing from Jaguar and Panther but are now included in Tiger. > If this is the case, then is it safe to delete the binaries for these > packages, the deb files and the source files? Or are there are other > precautions that I need to exercise? > > Is it safe to tell fink commander to remove them? > > Thank you very much. > > Payam > ------ > "...who search the reason of things > Are those who bring the most sorrow on themselves." > --Euripides, The Medea > > >
Provided packages that aren't named after a real, installable package (e.g. x11) don't have version numbers. These are set up for the use of the Debian tools that Fink uses, e.g. such that several different packages can be used to fulfill a dependency) Provided packages with version numbers frequently mean that the package is a real package, but some other package can also provide the same functionality (e.g. freetype2-hinting Provides freetype2). -- Alexander K. Hansen Fink Documenter [Day Job] Levitated Dipole Experiment http://psfcwww2.psfc.mit.edu/ldx/ ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idv37&alloc_id865&op=click _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
