On Jul 9, 2010, at 7:31 AM, Hanspeter Niederstrasser wrote:

> 
> [1] Why the buildworld is building the ptex-base from stable is a whole 
> other issue, and I have no idea as to why it's doing this.  It does 
> build ptex-base/unstable, but likes to build and use anew 
> ptex-base/stable in the middle of runs.

Well, I think I can explain this.  The ptex-base in stable has a long list of 
Provides:

Provides: <<
  tetex-base, tetex3-base, ptex3-base, mendexk,
  context, dvipdfm, epstopdf, pdftex, tetex-macosx, 
  (%type_raw[-nox] = .) xdvik
 <<

whereas the ptex-base in unstable only Provides ptex3-base and mendexk.

This means that if another package asks for tetex3-base, for example, then fink 
has two choices: ptex-base and tetex-base.  Since ptex-base is earlier in the 
alphabet, the automated script chooses ptex-base.  But since only the stable 
version Provides tetex3-base, the stable version is used.

I do not know why the Provides line in ptex-base was changed.  

  -- Dave


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