Re: how to recover from a broken fink install

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From: Richard E Maine
Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2005 23:56

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Davoud <star@sky.net> wrote:

> Hans Aberg:
> > 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.

That is *EXACTLY* why fink uses the /sw directory - so that it won't
interfere with other things and they won't interfere with it. Of course,
an app that is either malicious or sufficiently stupid (if one can tell
the difference :-)) can do almost anything, but other apps *SHOUDLN'T*
be putting things in /sw.

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Richard Maine                     | Good judgment comes from experience;
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Subject: Re: how to recover from a broken fink install
Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2005 15:56:07 -0800
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