On Wed, 06 Apr 2011 08:26:40 -0400, Alexander Hansen wrote: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 4/6/11 7:19 AM, Max Horn wrote: > > After a brief discussion with dmacks on IRC, let me clarify some points: I agree with what Max says I said:) > I've got one thing to add: when an obsolete placeholder package is a > Splitoff of a current real package, that brings in an indirect > dependency upon fink-obsolete-packages to the current package, and users > find that confusing. Since the obsolete placeholder presumably isn't > going to need much in the way of updating, I have found that it's not > much of a maintenance issue to give such packages their own .info files. If the obsolete package is involved with "=" versioned dependencies to or from other packages in the same .info, I think it has to stay in the same .info, else upgrade deadlock because the engine is dumb and/or it's a logical impossibility of circular dependency/ordering. dan
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