On 1/20/06, Murali Vadivelu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does aptitude and fink share the same database
Not directly. aptitude only knows about binary packages (either on your system or on a binary distribution server) while fink also knows about the source distribution. and can it be used > interchangeably? Only for those packages that are available in binary form. > > Why not make fink aptitude like? I like aptitude's automatic removal > of dependencies when removing the package with which it was installed > in the first place, if it is not depended by something else that is > installed. > > fink remove --recursive <packagename> does the same thing. -- Alexander K. Hansen Fink Documenter [Day Job] Levitated Dipole Experiment http://psfcwww2.psfc.mit.edu/ldx/ ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid3432&bid#0486&dat1642 _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
