[Fink-devel] kill fileutils

2008-05-24 Thread Martin Costabel
As a conclusion from a long thread on fink-users More 'Discoveries' on pwlib1, I suggest to remove the fileutils package from 10.4/stable. It had already been killed once in July 2006 and was reinstated only because the coreutils package that had caused its removal had itself some problems at

Re: [Fink-devel] kill fileutils

2008-05-24 Thread James Bunton
On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 09:43:55AM +0200, Martin Costabel wrote: At this occasion, I repeat my call to scrap that stinking compost heap called stable tree completely and replace it ASAP, at the same time as the unstable tree, by the pangocairo branch of the unstable tree. Is there any reason

Re: [Fink-devel] kill fileutils

2008-05-24 Thread Matthias Ringwald
On 24.05.2008, at 11:42, James Bunton wrote: On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 09:43:55AM +0200, Martin Costabel wrote: At this occasion, I repeat my call to scrap that stinking compost heap called stable tree completely and replace it ASAP, at the same time as the unstable tree, by the

Re: [Fink-devel] kill fileutils

2008-05-24 Thread Max Horn
Hi folks, I have no problem if my fileutils package gets ditched, I am using coreutils myself. As for the unstable tree: Indeed, the first thing I do when installing fink for somebody somewhere is to enable unstable. Now given my semi- retired status, I don't want to mess up live for my