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Removing now-former emboss maintainer.

On 8/10/10 2:30 PM, Scott R. Santos wrote:
> 
> Hi everyone,
> 
> Following a "sudo fink update-all", I was greeted with the following (which 
> left me scratching my head):
> 

Don't use "sudo fink".

> Information about 9508 packages read in 3 seconds.
> 
> fink needs help picking an alternative to satisfy a virtual dependency. The 
> candidates:
> 
> (1)     octave: Matlab-like language for computations
> (2)     octave-atlas: Matlab-like language for computations
> 
> Pick one: [1] 
> 
> fink needs help picking an alternative to satisfy a virtual dependency. The 
> candidates:
> 
> (1)     gnuplot: Command-driven interactive plotting program
> (2)     gnuplot-nox: Command-driven interactive plotting program
> (3)     gnuplot-nogtk: Command-driven interactive plotting program
> 
> Pick one: [1] 
> 
> fink needs help picking an alternative to satisfy a virtual dependency. The 
> candidates:
> 
> (1)     help2man-perl588: Generates man pages from program output
> (2)     help2man-perl5100: Generates man pages from program output
> 
> Pick one: [1] 
> 
> fink needs help picking an alternative to satisfy a virtual dependency. The 
> candidates:
> 
> (1)     ptex-base: ASCII publishing TeX
> (2)     ptex-nox-base: ASCII publishing TeX
> (3)     tetex-nox-base: Base programs for a teTeX installation
> (4)     tetex-base: Base programs for a teTeX installation
> (5)     texlive-nox-base: Base programs for a TeX Live installation
> (6)     texlive-base: Base programs for a TeX Live installation
> 
> Pick one: [1] 
> 
> fink needs help picking an alternative to satisfy a virtual dependency. The 
> candidates:
> 
> (1)     texlive-base: Base programs for a TeX Live installation
> (2)     texlive-nox-base: Base programs for a TeX Live installation
> 
> Pick one: [1] 
> The following package will be installed or updated:
>  emboss
> The following 263 additional packages will be installed:
>  app-defaults appleotffonts applesystemfonts aquaterm aquaterm-dev 
> aquaterm-shlibs atk1 atk1-shlibs audiofile audiofile-bin audiofile-shlibs 
> autoconf avahi avahi-dev bison cairo cairo-shlibs cloog cloog-shlibs cmake
>  compress-raw-bzip2-pm5100 compress-raw-zlib-pm5100 crypt-ssleay-pm5100 
> cyrus-sasl2-dev cyrus-sasl2-shlibs daemonic dbus dbus-dev dbus-glib1.2-dev 
> dbus-glib1.2-shlibs dbus-shlibs dbus1.3-dev dbus1.3-shlibs
>  default-icon-theme docbook-dsssl-nwalsh docbook-dtd docbook-utils 
> docbook-xsl doxygen emboss-libajax6-shlibs emboss-libnucleus6-shlibs esound 
> esound-bin esound-common esound-shlibs fftw3 fftw3-shlibs
>  fink-obsolete-packages flex-devel fondu freeglut freeglut-shlibs gcc44 
> gcc44-compiler gcc44-shlibs gconf2 gconf2-dev gconf2-shlibs getoptbin 
> glib2-dev glib2-shlibs glitz glitz-shlibs glpk-dev glpk-shlibs gmp gmp-shlibs
>  gnome-base gnome-common gnome-doc-utils gnome-icon-theme gnome-keyring-dev 
> gnome-keyring-shlibs gnome-mime-data gnome-vfs2-unified 
> gnome-vfs2-unified-dev gnome-vfs2-unified-shlibs gnuplot gst-plugins-base-0.10
>  gst-plugins-base-0.10-dev gst-plugins-base-0.10-shlibs gstreamer-0.10 
> gstreamer-0.10-dev gstreamer-0.10-shlibs gtk+2 gtk+2-dev gtk+2-shlibs gtk-doc 
> hdf5 hdf5-bin hdf5-shlibs help2man-perl588 html-parser-pm5100
>  html-tagset-pm icon-naming-utils intltool40 io-compress-pm5100 jadetex 
> lasi-dev lasi-shlibs libart2 libart2-shlibs libavahi-client3-shlibs 
> libavahi-common3-shlibs libavahi-core6-shlibs libavahi-glib1-dev
>  libavahi-glib1-shlibs libbonobo2 libbonobo2-dev libbonobo2-shlibs 
> libbonoboui2-dev libbonoboui2-shlibs libcdparanoia0-dev libcdparanoia0-shlibs 
> libcurl4 libdaemon libdaemon-shlibs libdatrie1 libdatrie1-shlibs libgcrypt
>  libgcrypt-shlibs libgettext3-dev libglade2 libglade2-shlibs libgmpxx-shlibs 
> libgnome2 libgnome2-dev libgnome2-shlibs libgnomecanvas2 libgnomecanvas2-dev 
> libgnomecanvas2-shlibs libgnomecups-dev libgnomecups-shlibs
>  libgnomeprint2.2-dev libgnomeprint2.2-shlibs libgnomeprintui2.2-dev 
> libgnomeprintui2.2-shlibs libgnomeui2-dev libgnomeui2-shlibs libgpg-error 
> libgpg-error-shlibs libidl2 libidl2-shlibs libidn libidn-shlibs libjasper.1
>  libjasper.1-shlibs libjpeg8 libkpathsea4 libkpathsea4-shlibs liblzma-shlibs 
> libmpc2 libmpc2-shlibs libmpfr1 libmpfr1-shlibs libogg libogg-shlibs 
> liboil-0.3 liboil-0.3-shlibs libpng14 libpng14-shlibs librarian.08-shlibs
>  libtasn1-3 libtasn1-3-shlibs libthai libthai-dev libthai-shlibs 
> libtheora0-shlibs libtiff libtiff-bin libtiff-shlibs libtool14 
> libtool14-shlibs libvorbis0-shlibs libwww libwww-bin libwww-pm5100 
> libwww-shlibs libxml2
>  libxml2-bin libxml2-py26 libxml2-shlibs libxslt libxslt-bin libxslt-shlibs 
> locale-gettext-pm588 make mysql-unified-dev mysql-unified-shlibs nkf ocaml 
> octave openjade openldap24-dev openldap24-shlibs openmotif3
>  openmotif3-shlibs opensp4 opensp4-dev opensp4-shlibs orbit2 orbit2-dev 
> orbit2-shlibs pango1-xft2-ft219 pango1-xft2-ft219-dev 
> pango1-xft2-ft219-shlibs passwd pdflib6 pdflib6-shlibs perl588-core pixman 
> pixman-shlibs
>  plotutils plotutils-dev plotutils-shlibs plplot-dev plplot-shlibs 
> postgresql84 postgresql84-dev postgresql84-shlibs ppl ppl-shlibs ptex-base 
> ptex-texmf ptexenc ptexenc-shlibs python26 python26-shlibs pyxml-py26 qhull
>  rarian rarian-compat sdl sdl-shlibs sed sgml-entities-iso8879 sgmls-pm 
> shared-mime-info suitesparse swig szip szip-shlibs t1lib5-nox 
> t1lib5-nox-shlibs t1lib5-x11 t1lib5-x11-shlibs texlive-base texlive-texmf 
> uri-pm5100
>  wxgtk2.8 wxgtk2.8-shlibs xdg-base xfontpath xft2-dev xft2-shlibs xinitrc 
> xmkmf xml-namespacesupport-pm xml-parser-pm5100 xml-sax-expat-pm5100 
> xml-sax-pm5100 xml-simple-pm5100 xz
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n
> 
> This is an EMBOSS update:
> 
> (i)  emboss                                       6.3.1-101                   
>       Molecular Biology Open Software Suite
> 
> on:
> 
> Darwin 10.4.0 Darwin Kernel Version 10.4.0: Fri Apr 23 18:28:53 PDT 2010; 
> root:xnu-1504.7.4~1/RELEASE_I386 i386 i386
> 
> Question: when (or more importantly, why) did EMBOSS suddenly require the 
> installation of (all of) 263 dependencies, including what appears to be all 
> of GNOME?
> 
> Thanks in advance for insight into this.
> 
> Scott
> 
> **********************************************************************
> Scott R. Santos
> Department of Biological Sciences &
> Cell and Molecular Biosciences Peak Program
> Auburn University
> 101 Life Science Building, Rm. 128
> Auburn, AL 36849
> Tele # (334) 844-7410
> Fax # (334) 844-1645
> Email: san...@auburn.edu
> Lab Website: http://www.auburn.edu/~santosr/
> **********************************************************************
> 
> 
> 

Is emboss the _only_ outdated package you had?  If not, then don't use
"fink update-all" if you don't want to build anything not related to it.

The all-of-gnome thing probably came from gnuplot.  You can use
gnuplot-nogtk to avoid that.

- -- 
Alexander Hansen
Fink User Liaison
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