On Friday, February 7, 2003, at 04:02 PM, Jeff Whitaker wrote:
On Fri, 7 Feb 2003, Benjamin Reed wrote:Why exactly does it depend on xfree86 4.2.1.1? Is it only for the purposes of upgrading?Yes - to avoid having to tell people to dpkg -r --force-depends.
Also, what about installing from scratch? New fink users now get to build and install (or download) two versions of xfree for no reason? Nearly every fink user uses xfree86. That is just silly.
What would the --force-depends be needed for? Rather than saying "Fuck you ben, fix it yourself" Please explain. This should have gotten discussion before going into unstable as this is a huge hack. I wouldn't be going off about this if you had asked for discussion here, dude. But its already in unstable.
In any case, i think it would be much cleaner to actually have the dpkg -r --force-depends, or post a script to to that, than to force new fink users to install two xfree86es, and commit every fink user to having two xfree86es forever.
-Ben
-------------------------------------------------------
This SF.NET email is sponsored by:
SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See!
http://www.vasoftware.com
_______________________________________________
Fink-devel mailing list
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
