Re: [Fink-users] Fink cleanup?

[jfm <jf...@jf...>]

On Thursday, May 15, 2003, at 21:33 Europe/Brussels, Alexander Hansen 
wrote:

> I think the removal of source tarballs, though listed, doesn't actually
> work.  I thought that the deb removal function did, though.
There is already a bug-report on this (#688151).

It is clear that fink cleanup's exact specification is hard to guess _
and that often it seems too conservative _ to me too.

But realize the problem has some pitfalls _ eg :
- you may have outdated (ie, a '(i)' in fink list) debs not installed _
    but waiting to be installed by some BuildDepends at the next 
opportunity
    (and eg the current version doesn't build at your place)
   :  you probably don't wan't to remove those...

- even for debs where newer ones are available on your machine:
   maybe you know the newer one is broken, or you prefer the older
   one for some other reason ...
   So you would probably want to check whether the newer deb is 
installed too...

- even when a newer deb is installed _ I'm not sure everybody would want
to get rid of python_2.2.2-6 with python_2.3b1-1 installed, or of 
netpbm-bin_9.25-3
(from the current 'netpbm' info file) when netpbm-bin_10.12-2 is 
installed (from the
netpbm10 info file)...

So, if people are not happy with current behaviour _ it would be useful 
if they
could think about an alternative exact specification...

JF Mertens