[Fink-devel] Libncurses5 / ncurses-dev

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I have problems with the libncurses5 and ncurses-dev packages. Fink=20
replaces one by the other back and forth.

Here what I understand of the problem:

ncurses-dev is provided by the ncurses-shlibs (5.3-20031018) package.=20
It is flagged as essential, so Fink will try to keep it installed. On=20
the other hand, libncurses5 replaces ncurses-dev and so it will be=20
removed if one install libncurses5 (or install a package which depends=20
on it). If one do a fink selfupdate, Fink will reinstall ncurses-dev=20
because it is an essential package. The next selfupdate will (sometimes=20
?) reinstall libncurses5, and remove ncurses-dev, and so on.

How can this be solved ?

A side question: Why both libcurses5 and ncurses-shlibs install a=20
ncurses package (versions 5.3-20031018 and 54-20041023 respectively) ?

S=E9bastien