On 29/3/02 8:24 AM, "Max Horn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> At 16:09 Uhr -0500 28.03.2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> Max,
>> 
>> I can understand your position and respect the desire not to
>> dilute the Fink policy unless absolutely positively necessary, even
>> if-- in this one case-- I disagree.
>> 
>> And I *fully* support your proposal regarding a third party
>> section.  I actually have a few Fink packages I have put together
>> that will never be accepted because they completely violate policy;
>> the most notable being the Jode package (as it installs a binary).
>> 
>> It would be nice if there was a mechanism for injecting a
>> hunk of .info files into fink;  ones that are completely unsupported
>> or totally local.
> 
> Prolly, yeah. One idea would be to use yet another tree for it, say
> "thirdparty" or so. Writing some inject scripts wouldn't be hard, and
> we could also write a tool to add this to fink.conf (if you think
> it's not enough to explain to users how to make that change).
> 
> 
> Max

How about 'contrib'? That's what Debian uses, although I'm not sure if it's
for the same purposes...


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