[Fink-devel] Re: packages that are part of the system

2003-07-25 Thread John Davidorff Pell
Replying to my own email Also, there have been lots of problems with ncurses, right? well, its in panther too! if we link against the apple libs so many problems with many packages will go away! Unless I'm missing something big (besides any possible upgrade schemes) this is the way to go!

Re: [Fink-devel] pm dependencies

2003-07-25 Thread David R. Morrison
Hi. This is indeed a tricky problem. Ideally, people might want to have several different versions of the perl-core packages installed, and might want the ability to easily switch back and forth among them. So I am a bit concerned that the perl-core-not packages you propose would interfere with

Re: [Fink-devel] pm dependencies

2003-07-25 Thread jfm
On Friday, Jul 25, 2003, at 14:46 Europe/Brussels, David R. Morrison wrote: Hi. This is indeed a tricky problem. Ideally, people might want to have several different versions of the perl-core packages installed, and might want the ability to easily switch back and forth among them. So I am

Re: [Fink-devel] pm dependencies

2003-07-25 Thread jfm
On Friday, Jul 25, 2003, at 15:22 Europe/Brussels, jfm wrote: With those, switching back to a previously used version is just doing fink install perlxyz _ the corresponding -not package gets automatically moved out of the way as a conflict, and nothing else has to be done since the deps of all

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: packages that are part of the system

2003-07-25 Thread John Davidorff Pell
Here's my rationale for wanting some fink packages to be removed (or a system-foo package created??): Devel: AutoConf2.5: version 2.57 is provided by panther, obviously the other autoconf packages would remain for compatibility. :-) AutoMake1.6: version 1.6.1 is provided by panther, the