One of the big problems with the fink project seems to be getting feedback so packages can be moved to stable. I got so frustrated at constantly having to copy info and patch files to my local tree that I went whole hog and configured fink to use unstable.
I suspect many users are a bit like myself - I've got so many packages installed that I've completely lost track of which ones are still in unstable, and there doesn't seem to be any way to find out, other than manually digging on each one. Most people are basically lazy, so feedback doesn't happen as much as it should. Is there some easy way to get a report of which installed packages are in unstable? I've reported positive feedback on the various major packages I have installed, but each one depends on numerous less visible dependencies. I suspect the various support packages are the last ones to get feedback because people never even think of them. But that'll still keep the main packages in unstable. I envision a fink option to assist the feedback process. fink --feedback. This would start an interactive process whereby the user would be asked if he could provide feedback on each major installed unstable package. He would have the option of positive, negative or no feedback. If the user selected negative feedback, he would be requested to add comments to explain the problem. Fink would automatically e-mail the feedback info to the package maintainers. If a major package got positive feedback, all dependencies that were in unstable would also automatically get positive feed, annotated that it was trickle-down feedback from package "xxxx". After the major packages were covered, fink --feedback would check to see if all installed packages had been covered either directly, or via trickle down because they were a dependency of a major package. The user would be asked for feedback on any remaining packages until they were all covered. It would obviously be a fair bit of work to design and implement something like this, but I think the investment would be well spent, as it would facilitate moving packages to stable. Kevin Horton _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
