Re: how to recover from a broken fink install

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From: Hans Aberg
Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2005 23:56

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In article <021220051811472273%star@sky.net>, star@sky.com wrote:

> > Just remove the /sw/ directory. Fink does not touch anything else on the
> > computer. Then just reinstall.
> 
> Is Fink the /only/ app that puts files in the sw directory? I want to
> delete that directory to install a new version of Fink, but have been
> afraid to do so lest some of the files belong to other apps.

The /sw/ directory is a Fink invention, and no other installation has any
reason to put stuff there. Under BSD, it is traditional to put packages
that do not come with the (Mac OS X) installation in /usr/local/ (put the
sources in /usr/local/src/). These are just conventions, though.

-- 
  Hans Aberg

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