My understanding is that some packages that were built on 10.1 don't work on 10.2 . The fink team doesn't want to have any broken binaries in the distro, so they either have to evaluate all of the old 10.1 binaries, or build 10.2 one. I think they went with the latter route.
On Thu, 2002-10-17 at 01:34, Marc Boxerman wrote: > I've heard much discussion that no binaries have been compiled to run > under Jaguar and that those of us running 10.2 must download and > compile source code. I'm a bit confused by this because I did an > archive and install from 10.1.5 to 10.2 and the old binaries run just > fine: Window Maker, GIMP, XMMS, Eterm -- they all work just as before. > > I'm considering upgrading my Fink install for 10.2 as recommended, but > nothing appears to be broken, so why mess with it? > > > Marc > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by: viaVerio will pay you up to > $1,000 for every account that you consolidate with us. > http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;4749864;7604308;v? > http://www.viaverio.com/consolidator/osdn.cfm > _______________________________________________ > Fink-beginners mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners > -- Alexander K. Hansen Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University visiting MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center Levitated Dipole Experiment 175 Albany Street, NW17-219 Cambridge, MA 02139-4213 ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: viaVerio will pay you up to $1,000 for every account that you consolidate with us. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;4749864;7604308;v? http://www.viaverio.com/consolidator/osdn.cfm _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
