On Nov 26, 2006, at 4:02 PM, Martin Costabel wrote:
Kevin Bradley wrote:
I agree with David Lowe, that wrote about rethinking the stable/ unstable situation. Unlike some, I _do_ use FinkCommander and the underlying Fink structure for stable vs. unstable packages becomes even messier through the GUI. Once you enable unstable, then you have a mish-mash of both stable and unstable packages listed and it makes it very confusing to select items.

Could you explain what you find confusing? An example, perhaps?

Usually you install the latest available version, and both "fink install" or FinkCommander do this by default. This latest version can be from stable or from unstable, but it doesn't matter where it's from.

Or do you mean the distinction between installation "from source" and "binary" when you say "unstable" and "stable"? There is indeed not much control about whether you get a package from binary or not, and this could be improved.

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Martin

No, I understand the diff between src/bin and stab/unstab. No issue there. I guess for me the juggling of 5 different version numbers (installed, src, bin, stable, unstable) feels like it could be simplified. I'm wondering if it would be easier to list unstable packages as completely separate packages. Then you could show each package with a version for source and binary and installed version. As it is now, if you have installed from source and the binary is one version behind and the unstable is two versions ahead, it looks a bit tangled and you wind up repeating the installed version number in either src or bin and then again in stab/unstab.

While I understand the current structure, it just seems like 5 versions is a bit much for one line of information. Like I said, I'm not sure what the solution is, I'm just hoping to get some dialog going to see what others think and maybe someone will have a lightbulb go on above their head.

Kevin Bradley
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