On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 07:34:26PM +0100, Andrea Riciputi wrote: > I was trying to install a package that depends on glib2, when I > noticed that glib2 is depending on fink-obsolete-packages. So I'm > wondering why this dependence is required.
"glib2" is obsolete. According to 'fink info glib2', the glib2-shlibs package now contains all the files that used ot be in the glib2 package. It's certainly okay to keep glib2 around (as it doesn't contain anything) and it automatically causes glib2-shlibs to be installed (so the files that the package that wanted glib2 wanted will still be present). But by marking glib2 as obsolete, users and especially maintainers can wean themselves off of it. Visit the Fink Wiki for more information about the new obsolete-packages mechanism: http://wiki.finkproject.org/index.php/Fink:Packaging:Obsolete_Packages dan -- Daniel Macks [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.netspace.org/~dmacks ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
