[Fink-devel] shared libraries (was Re: xfree86 4.2.0 yet stable?)

2002-02-09 Thread David R. Morrison
Martin Costabel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > > I know I am talking against the trend of the day here that goes towards > multiplying the number of packages. I am not yet convinced, for example, > of the real usefulness of the splitting off of -shlibs and -bin > packages. I'll be convince

[Fink-devel] fink upgrade strategy (was Re: xfree86 4.2.0 yet stable?)

2002-02-09 Thread David R. Morrison
Martin Costabel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Max Horn wrote: > > > If you need libgl, you should have a "Depends: libgl". Period. > > -rootless has this. > > Not true. -rootless has Provides: libgl and Conflicts: libgl. > > I think the libgl stuff (mesa package and system-libgl) were band-aid

Re: [Fink-devel] ideas on pseudo packages

2002-02-09 Thread Max Horn
At 20:30 Uhr -0500 08.02.2002, Alexander Strange wrote: >*looks ashamed* >Err, I do that. But only because there isn't any room left on my >internal disk. That is perfectly OK IMHO, and it worked well for me in the past, too. Max -- --- Max Horn Sof