I use fink occasionally to (obviously) install the odd package. It can be very useful, but I tend to find that it wants to install far too much, and I haven't found how to stop it satisfying all its - what I think are unnecessary - dependencies.
For example, I just tried to install svn-ssl, and fink asked me to choose which python package to install. Well
a) python comes as part of 10.3, why does fink feel it needs to install me a new one?
b) as far as I know svn *doesn't need* python. It does come with python bindings - but I don't want to use them.
I ran into the same problem with mysql a few days ago. I've installed it many times myself (since OS X was called Rhapsody) and I thought it was time to give fink a try. Fink wanted to install so many extra packages that I gave up and installed from mysql.org - without adding *any* of the extra packages fink told me were necessary.
How do I tell fink not to install all the optional extra bits, and just give me what I need?
Sorry to ask such a dumb question - I have RTFMed, but I obviously haven't found the right one yet - could some one please point me in the right direction?
cheers, Geoff
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