On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 10:49 AM, Max Horn <m...@quendi.de> wrote: > > Hi there, > > so last night I finally made the move from OS X 10.5 to 10.6. As part of > that, I reinstalled Fink from scratch. This went mostly fine, but there were > a couple of annoyances, one of which I want to describe here: > > Several packages, among them libcurl4 and coreutils (maintainers CCed), > forced me to install the fink-obsolete-packages package -- even though I > installed nothing that was obsolete. The reason for this is of course that > these packages have obsolete splitoffs, which depend on > fink-obsolete-packages and hence pull in fink-obsolete-packages. > > This is not very nice, IMO. For me personally it's easy to determine that the > dependency on fink-obsolete-packages is only an unwanted side effect and I > just removed it after those packages installed. But for users in general, > this seems like a negative experience... they install a brand new package and > suddenly see something about obsolete stuff being installed. Not nice :/. > > I am not sure what the best way is to resolve this, but I hope that it can be > resolved ... one idea that comes to mind is forbidding splitoffs to depend on > fink-obsolete-packages, i.e. enforcing a policy where either all splitoffs > (including the master splitoff) in an .info file depend on > fink-obsolete-packages, or none. In this particular case that would mean that > the obsolete splitoffs needs to go to separate .info files. That seems easy > enough to do, however, I am not sure whether this couldn't cause some other > weird dependency side effects, when upgrading from old package versions... >
I'm going to make a separate obsolete package for the next libcurl4 release. It's one of those things I've considered doing before but always forget when I update the package. Sorry. Daniel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
