Re: [Fink-devel] Interaction with other package installers

2004-03-03 Thread Heywood J
The only i-Installer packages that fink knows how to recognize are tetex and ghostscript. To get fink to recognize them, you install fink's system-tetex and system-ghostscript packages. OK, that makes sense. those are the stubs that the i-Installer creator mentioned specifically. Speaking

Re: [Fink-devel] Interaction with other package installers

2004-03-03 Thread David R. Morrison
Let me explain in more detail. Fink installs all of its software in a directory that it manages. (The default choice is /sw, but some people use different directories.) One of the key features of fink is that it is good at tracking dependencies, and so on. However, for this to work, only fink

[Fink-devel] Interaction with other package installers

2004-03-02 Thread Heywood J
Hello Fink developers, I have a question about Fink's interation with other package installers. (Apologies in advance if one of the other Fink lists is more appropriate for this question...). I installed TeXShop (http://www.uoregon.edu/~koch/texshop/texshop.html) on my Powerbook. To do so, I had