On Sun, 27 Jan 2008, Martin Costabel wrote: > Richard Cobbe wrote: >> >> First, it appears that the daemonic package depends on bash-completions; >> this is presumably why fink installed the bash-completions package. I >> certainly didn't explicitly ask for bash-completions. Now, >> "dpkg -L daemonic" explains why this dependency exists; daemonic puts a file >> in /sw/etc/bash_completion.d and thus needs that directory to exist. But > > It does not need that directory to exist. It creates it anyway and can > very well place things inside even if the bash_completion package is not > installed. > > I agree that one could consider this a bug in the daemonic package to > impose the bash_completion package on people who don't want it, in > particular considering that the daemonic package itself is often > installed as a dependency that is not really needed. I am CCing the > author of this (very recent) addition to daemonic.
Another plea for the removal of this unrequested package from dependencies. I was wondering what had happened, and, since its appearance more or less coincided with my Leopard upgrade, hadn't worked out that it wasn't due to that. In fact, I managed to remove daemonic (don't know how it originally got installed) and then bash-completion. I got the following warning though: Removing bash-completion ... dpkg - warning: while removing bash-completion, directory `/sw/etc/bash_completion.d' not empty so not removed. Which suggests removing daemonic didn't remove whatever it put in there...a little untidy of it, no? thanks, -- Viv ------------------------------------------------ Dr Viv Kendon http://quantum.leeds.ac.uk/~viv Quantum Information Physics & Astronomy University of Leeds ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
