On 12/28/12 9:18 AM, Peter Dyballa wrote:
> 
> Am 28.12.2012 um 17:10 schrieb Peter Dyballa:
> 
>>      Conflicts: imagemagick, imagemagick-nox, 
>> graphicsmagick-imagemagick-compat
>>      Replaces: imagemagick, imagemagick-nox, imagemagick10-shlibs, 
>> imagemagick-nox10-shlibs, imagemagick10-dev (<= 1:6.3.5-1006), 
>> graphicsmagick-imagemagick-compat
>>      Provides: (%type_raw[-nox] = .) imagemagick-nox
> 
> Iwas a bit too fast on my keyboard…
> 
> The latter "Provides:" statement seems a bit incorrect: shouldn't it be 
> imagemagick2-dev?

No.

> 
> The statements "(%type_raw[-nox] = .)" evaluate presumingly to TRUE in the 
> case of building the X client software, while in the "nox" case I should 
> better use
> 
>       (%type_raw[-nox] = nox)?
> 
> Instead the same is "." is used in the imagemagick-nox.info file, which then 
> evaluates to FALSE. This way Fink seems to enter a conflict…
> 
> --
> Greetings
> 
>   Pete
> 
> No man was ever taken to hell by a woman unless he already had a ticket in 
> his pocket, or at least had been fooling around with timetables.
>                               – Archie Goodwin
> 
> 
>

The intent was to denote that imagemagick provides the same
functionality as imagemagick-nox and can therefore be used in place of it.

However, this is a bad use of Provides that you have inherited.  Mixing
Provides and real package names in the same name space generally does
not work as intended by the maintainer.

-- 
Alexander Hansen, Ph.D.
Fink User Liaison
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