On 7/9/10 11:58 AM, Tomoaki Okayama wrote: > 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.
Thanks. This changed the error report. I now get: **** While trying to install: ptex-base-3.1.10-1004 The following inconsistencies found: Unsatisfied dependency in ptex-texmf: texlive-base | texlive-nox-base **** This seems to come from ptex-texmf/unstable explicitly Depending: on texlive-base. Hanspeter ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
