On Tue, 27 Jan 2004, Martin Costabel wrote: > > I believe we have one or two command line apps in fink which are binary. > > One of them is aquaterm that installs an app into /sw/Applications. I > never liked the fact that this is a binary installation, even when you > do "fink install". But I think the main reason for this is precisely > that the building of apps with Fink packages was frowned upon. A binary > installation was considered the lesser evil, which I always found > perverse. BTW, I don't think anyone ever reported problems with > AquaTerm.app living in /sw/Applications. Nobody complained about the > restriction of their freedom to move apps around at will. > Martin: The reason that aquaterm is binary is only that originally, only a binary release was available. Now I believe the source is available, but I just have never gotten around to modifying the package.
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