On Aug 2, 2004, at 11:59 PM, Aron Trauring wrote:
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AND YET IT WENT AHEAD AND INSTALLED A NEW ONE ANYWAY. Where am I at fault here?
Please don't shout. Did Fink actually _install_ XFree86, or did it just build or download a version and fail to install it? If you run "fink list -i xfree86", what do you get?
The whole point is that I didnt want to switch X11 and somehow Fink was forcing itself to do so. Since I have done source/unstable systems before, I find this bizarre. This never happened to me in the past.There are a couple of FAQs and other docs dealing with switching X11 packages.
I am a pretty experienced Fink user and have been using Unix for 25 years and Linux for about seven, if I have problems getting this to work smoothly then I can only imagine what someone less experienced goes through. It seems to me there is something problematic with Fink if it is so difficult to get it to work properly. Dismissing my comments with hand waving and pointing me to the FAQs is ignoring the issue.
xfree86 is unique among Fink packages in that it must be installed in /usr/X11R6. Since all other flavors of X11 have to go there, too, Fink has to go to some pains to keep from clobbering an external installation. Things aren't always perfect.
-- Alexander K. Hansen Fink Documentarian Day Job: Levitated Dipole Experiment http://www.psfc.mit.edu/LDX
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