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Authored by: sjonke on Jun 16, '02 11:01:07PM

True, however, note that Fink doesn't actually delete much when you "delete" a package. If after having deleted you select to install them again, you'll find that it takes very little time even if you had installed from source originally as the compiled form is really still there. As such, that you can too easily "delete" stuff isn't as big a deal as it might other wise be. Not that FinkCommander shouldn't have confirmations for such actions anyway, of course.

I find FinkCommander to be very nice, although it does have quirks. For instance if you mis-type your password, then after that it will not ask you for the correct password, you'll simply get errors. At that point you have to manually select "Enter password" from the Tools menu. There are other similar situations you can get in to, like the search field having something in it, but the listing not reflecting it. Still, this is tons better than fink from the command line. If nothing else it makes it clear when a binary is available. Often I want to install the binary first before installing a source version of an app so that I can see if it's worth the bother. FinkCommander makes it clear when a binary is available in addition to source. That alone is worth the the (non-)price of admission.



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Authored by: sburr on Jun 21, '02 01:54:36PM

If you can reproduce the problem of the table not reflecting the search field text, I'd really appreciate it if you would file a bug report. The Help menu includes an item that will take you straight to FinkCommander's bug reports page on SourceForge. I haven't experienced this myself, so the more details you can provide about the sequence of events that lead to the problem and what the table looks like, the more likely it is that I'll be able to solve it.



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