On 1/20/06, Murali Vadivelu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > fink remove --recursive <packagename> does the same thing. > > It doesn't! I tried removing aptitude which I just installed with the > following dependencies: > apt-dev html2text libgettext3-dev libsigc++2 libsigc++2-shlibs sed > > The dependencies are still there! > > fink remove --recursive aptitude > Information about 5285 packages read in 47 seconds. > /sw/bin/apt-get-lockwait remove aptitude > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > The following packages will be REMOVED: > aptitude > 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 3 not upgraded. > Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 45.5MB will be freed. > Do you want to continue? [Y/n] > (Reading database ... 111532 files and directories currently installed.) > Removing aptitude ... >
Ah, I misunderstood the direction of removal you wanted. Since we have aptitude and debfoster, there's probably not much call to modify the fink tool to do that. > > On 20 Jan 2006, at 01:50 pm, Alexander K. Hansen wrote: > > > 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
