Thank you, I think that's precisely what I needed.  Next time.

Adam

On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 9:38 AM, Alexander Hansen
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Adam wrote:
>> There as a huge list of dependencies on gail17, basically everything I
>> had installed with fink.  I decided to do a complete uninstall and
>> start from scratch to clean out the filth.  I think my mistake was
>> doing an update-all when unstable was enabled.
> Nope--we probably needed an explicit replacement option for gail17 when
> it got obsoleted.  In the future, instead of removing Fink, there's a
> manual option to override the file checking--which is useful in these
> cases when you're overriding a package known to be obsolete.
>
> http://www.finkproject.org/faq/comp-general.php?phpLang=en#also_in
>
>> I still haven't gotten
>> things to work correctly after the fresh install but my problems are
>> different now.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Adam
>>
>>
>
>

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