Re: [Fink-devel] fink-obsolete-packages annoyance

2010-03-16 Thread Max Horn
Am 15.03.2010 um 17:41 schrieb Daniel Macks: [...] I am not sure what the best way is to resolve this, but I hope that it can be resolved ... one idea that comes to mind is forbidding splitoffs to depend on fink-obsolete-packages, i.e. enforcing a policy where either all splitoffs

Re: [Fink-devel] fink-obsolete-packages annoyance

2010-03-16 Thread Daniel Macks
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 11:43:31AM +0100, Max Horn wrote: Am 15.03.2010 um 17:41 schrieb Daniel Macks: Max: The other alternative would be to implement the ancient idea of an RuntimeDepends (or InstallDepends, or whatever) field. I.e. a field which is kind of the complement of

[Fink-devel] fink-obsolete-packages annoyance

2010-03-15 Thread Max Horn
Hi there, so last night I finally made the move from OS X 10.5 to 10.6. As part of that, I reinstalled Fink from scratch. This went mostly fine, but there were a couple of annoyances, one of which I want to describe here: Several packages, among them libcurl4 and coreutils (maintainers CCed),

Re: [Fink-devel] fink-obsolete-packages annoyance

2010-03-15 Thread Alexander Hansen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 3/15/10 10:49 AM, Max Horn wrote: Hi there, so last night I finally made the move from OS X 10.5 to 10.6. As part of that, I reinstalled Fink from scratch. This went mostly fine, but there were a couple of annoyances, one of which I want to

Re: [Fink-devel] fink-obsolete-packages annoyance

2010-03-15 Thread Daniel Johnson
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 10:49 AM, Max Horn m...@quendi.de wrote: Hi there, so last night I finally made the move from OS X 10.5 to 10.6. As part of that, I reinstalled Fink from scratch. This went mostly fine, but there were a couple of annoyances, one of which I want to describe here:

Re: [Fink-devel] fink-obsolete-packages annoyance

2010-03-15 Thread Daniel Macks
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 03:49:16PM +0100, Max Horn wrote: Hi there, so last night I finally made the move from OS X 10.5 to 10.6. As part of that, I reinstalled Fink from scratch. This went mostly fine, but there were a couple of annoyances, one of which I want to describe here: Several