Re: [Fink-users] Darwinports vs. Fink

[Stephan Jaeger]

Hiya,

What I have read so far, is that you cannot use the tcl/tk that is installed by fink, when you want to use DarwinPorts. This information is now 2 weeks old and may be out of date.

I have Fink as my main distribution installed (because it is a great piece of software!!) and have installed DarwinPorts as an additional distribution (just to follow the process). The only software I installed so far is apache and ssmtp.
To be able to do this, I removed all tcl/tk related software from Fink, which might be a huge restriction for others.

The software installed by DarwinPorts is located in /opt/local/, probably for the same reasons why fink is installed in /sw.

You have to be very(!) careful what software you install with which distribution. You cannot install both versions of XFree86, for instance, because both install XDarwin in /Applications. Of course, you can install the DarwinPorts version and install the system-xfree86 of Fink, but you might run into trouble later, if you want to change to the rootless version of XFree86.

So, the policy for myself is that I use Fink as the primary distribution and keep updating DarwinPorts to keep up-to-date with its development. The only software I install with DarwinPorts is the one that does not affect the proper use of Fink (e.g. apache, ssmtp) or is not available with Fink.

Regards,

Stephan



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