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

2003-07-27 Thread John Davidorff Pell
On Friday, July 25, 2003, at 10:14 PM, Charles Lepple wrote: On Friday, July 25, 2003, at 08:02 PM, John Davidorff Pell wrote: Tcltk: this one is a little odd: Apple has provided tcl, but not tk...? i'm at a loss... Check the list archives-- I believe someone figured out that Tk is an extra

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

2003-07-27 Thread Ben Hines
On Friday, July 25, 2003, at 05:02 PM, John Davidorff Pell wrote: Zsh: version 4.0.4 is provided by panther, the current fink version is 4.0.6 -snip much- I don't understand why you listed all these packages which fink has later versions. That's kinda the point of fink. Users want the latest

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

2003-07-27 Thread TheSin
does it come with ldap support? I think not, the reason for all of these pkgs are a) missing build time features b) so we link again finks version and not apples, linking against apples can totally kill fink if apple decides to release un updated lib and we didn't know this way fink can make

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

2003-07-27 Thread David R. Morrison
I'm not sure if you got a response to your initial message or not. Apple has added a number of new open source pacakges with each major release of OS X. So far, fink's philosophy has been to keep providing a fink version of the package, even after Apple is providing their own. (The only exception

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

2003-07-26 Thread Max Horn
Am Samstag, 26.07.03 um 02:02 Uhr schrieb John Davidorff Pell: Here's my rationale for wanting some fink packages to be removed (or a system-foo package created??): Sorry that's nonsense. None of the packages you list should be removed. In many cases the versions provided by Fink are newer. Eve

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 curren