Hi, At Fri, 9 Jul 2010 08:07:03 -0600, David R. Morrison wrote: > > > 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. > Thanks for the explanation. The reason for the change of Provides is that ptex-base in unstable becomes a small package, like xetex, whereas ptex-base in stable provides all teTeX + additional pTeX.
TeX Live package is very huge. If ptex-base in unstable provides texlive-base, another huge package comes into being there, and we do not like it. So we decided that ptex-base does not provides texlive-base (and tetex-base, too). Anyway: At Fri, 09 Jul 2010 09:31:25 -0400, Hanspeter Niederstrasser wrote: > > ... Could you please modify ptex-base in stable to > conflicts/replaces with texlive-base? so that the swapping can take > place gracefully? > Committed. Please check it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first _______________________________________________ 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
