<snip> > Just another question. > I'm a Debian user and I like very much the .deb package management. > Why the fink management is not the same between the binary distribution > and the fink one ? > I have a "slow" g3-233 and this take a while to see COMPILATION FAILED > in the morning... > > Why isn't a binary mirror from the fink dist somewhere ?
My understanding is that this is philosophical issue: the fink team has decided not to release official binaries of unstable packages, where unstable refers in this case to packages that aren't well tested on OSX--some packages require patches to run on OSX, and it is necessary to ensure that everything runs reliably before making a binary--remember that many OSX users have used Macs for a long time, and want applications that run reliably. Linux users, on the other hand, are more used to needing to update packages, or having things crash occsionally (I am overgeneralizing here). > > thanks > > -- > marco > <snip> -- Alexander K. Hansen Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University visiting MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center Levitated Dipole Experiment 175 Albany Street, NW17-219 Cambridge, MA 02139-4213 ------------------------------------------------------- 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
