Won't work (at least for now).

A considerable number of the packages out there require patching to compile
on OSX, so you couldn't just grab any old package tarball and build it.
For this reason fink's apt-get and friends don't have the full range of
options that one gets with Debian.

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On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Gregory Seidman wrote:

> I am impressed by just how much stuff is available directly through
> Fink. I am even more impressed, however, by everything available from
> Debian proper. Naturally, x86 Debian packages aren't going to work on my
> Mac.
>
> I was wondering, however, if anyone knew how well it would work to add a
> deb-src line to /sw/etc/apt/source.list that pointed to a Debian source
> distribution. Would apt-get build-dep work? How about apt-get --build
> source? Would the .deb packages it produces install into /sw, or would
> it install wherever it would on Debian? Can we leverage the existing
> Debian distribution like that?
>
> --Greg
>
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