Re: [Fink-devel] Re: Providing default /sw/var/lib/debfoster/keepers with base-files package?

2005-01-23 Thread Remi Mommsen
Hi, On Jan 21, 2005, at 4:01 AM, Daniel Macks wrote: On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 05:57:23AM -0500, Dave Vasilevsky wrote: On Jan 20, 2005, at 8:02 PM, Daniel Macks wrote: If a user is not carfull the system might end up unusable due to e.g. a missing apt while running with UseBinaryDist. That's not an

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: Providing default /sw/var/lib/debfoster/keepers with base-files package?

2005-01-22 Thread Dave Vasilevsky
On Jan 20, 2005, at 8:02 PM, Daniel Macks wrote: If a user is not carfull the system might end up unusable due to e.g. a missing apt while running with UseBinaryDist. That's not an "unusable" state, since fink will merely issue a "please install the apt pkg" warning. But anyway... I think what was

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: Providing default /sw/var/lib/debfoster/keepers with base-files package?

2005-01-22 Thread Dave Vasilevsky
On Jan 20, 2005, at 8:02 PM, Daniel Macks wrote: If a user is not carfull the system might end up unusable due to e.g. a missing apt while running with UseBinaryDist. That's not an "unusable" state, since fink will merely issue a "please install the apt pkg" warning. But anyway... I think what was

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: Providing default /sw/var/lib/debfoster/keepers with base-files package?

2005-01-21 Thread Daniel Macks
On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 05:57:23AM -0500, Dave Vasilevsky wrote: > On Jan 20, 2005, at 8:02 PM, Daniel Macks wrote: > >>>If a user is not carfull the system might end up unusable due > >>>to e.g. a missing apt while running with UseBinaryDist. > > > >That's not an "unusable" state, since fink will

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: Providing default /sw/var/lib/debfoster/keepers with base-files package?

2005-01-20 Thread Daniel Macks
On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 04:33:36PM -0800, Remi Mommsen wrote: > On Jan 20, 2005, at 6:47 AM, Christian Schaffner wrote: > > > >We recommend more and more often to use the debfoster fink package to > >keep track of unneeded packages on a Fink installation. One problem > >that users are facing with

[Fink-devel] Re: Providing default /sw/var/lib/debfoster/keepers with base-files package?

2005-01-20 Thread Remi Mommsen
Hi, On Jan 20, 2005, at 6:47 AM, Christian Schaffner wrote: Dear Fink Developers We recommend more and more often to use the debfoster fink package to keep track of unneeded packages on a Fink installation. One problem that users are facing with debfoster is that it asks to remove too many packa