On Sep 19 2002, Max Horn wrote: > Sorry but I have to correct this: we can not "merge back" with > debian, as we never "split off" of debian. Fink is a completly > independant project. We only happen to use the same lower level > tools (dpkg/apt). Otherwise we are completly unrelated.
Please forgive my ignorant question, but why exactly does the Fink project uses the fink program for part of the package management and apt for the other part? Why couldn't "apt-get source" be used like in Debian? As you can see from my question, I am relatively experienced with Debian (have made some packages of my own), but am still learning about fink. To be honest, the way things are explained in the documentation of the project left me with many questions like "is fink actually two distributions, one source based and another with binary packages?" As a newcomer to the project, I see that most of the problems that people seem to have with fink is during the phase of building packages. :-( If the limitation is space/hosting, perhaps the project could negotiate with some partner to see if they would want to host the Fink project... It would certainly make things easier for people and would change the nature of the discussions held on the mailing lists, IMHO. Ok. I'll stop now and see what the opinion of those running the project is before I continue with the comments. []s, Roger... -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Rogério Brito - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users