Re: Fink-users Digest, Vol 180, Issue 27

>>> "LBJ" == Lucier, Bradley J <[email protected]> writes:

> Date: Mon, 31 May 2021 13:20:35 +0200
> From: Uwe Brauer <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
> To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
> Subject: [Fink-users] evince without texlive
> Message-ID: <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
> Content-Type: text/plain


> Alexander Hansen just responded to one of my messages:

> We used to do a virtual package for TeTeX a long time ago, but we
> stopped because the lead developer disliked Fink, and also liked to
> move the files that we used as indicators that the package was
> installed—possibly deliberately. It got to be a hassle for the
> maintainer, so he dropped that. We gradually dropped allowing for
> externally-installed versions of other packages for the same reason —
> an upstream developer would move something, and Fink would think that
> the package wasn’t installed when it actually was.

> The placeholder package isn’t hard in and of itself—it might just be a
> bunch of symbolic links from the Fink tree to the actual TeXlive
> binaries. What is hard is making sure that our other packages can swap
> between the two options.

Thanks! So it seems save to install it since it will occupy just some MB
if at all?

Regards

Uwe

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