<AKH> The Darwin core is available freely: http://developer.apple.com/darwin/I haven't either, until fairly recently, but I have gotten a bit of insight into this, so that there is hidden value that might not be immediately apparent. On that guess, I'll risk the possibility that I might be preaching to the choir.
Thanks for the link. Their license looks rather like the GPL, actually, except for all the talk about Apple in it.
<AKH> I wish I knew--I'd love to have Fink for Linux on i386, personally.
I feel the same way, though my Linux machine is not in frequent use.
Anyhow, the various sources of rpm's, like redhat, or slackware, or maybe a half-dozen or more biggies, all have lists of dependencies they claim for any particular package. The dependencies are apparently written up fairly liberally, so that the web of interdependencies becomes huge in a very small number of installed packages. To finish off the evil scenario, the list of dependencies differs from one rpm source to another. This means you can very easily get yourself into a situation where you can't go forward, but neither can you go back, all because of mismatched dependency lists, Redhat claiming you need this thing, but the other dist is saying the exact opposite.
A tool like fink, with it's simpler, more relaxed set of dependencies, is very badly needed. Don't get me wrong, you don't want to suspend dependency checking, but you need to keep it within reasonable bounds. I think that it's very likely that find, once it's flavor becomes more widely know, will be very wildly popular.
Did I say wildly? I might have meant widely ... or not ... but the conclusion remains the same, I think fink will get a very positive reception, once the "NIH" (not invented here) crowd of teenagers (of all ages) gets past their prejudices.
<AKH> The Aqua layer (Finder, window manager, etc.) is proprietary, of course. I think a lot of the rest of the system is derived from open-source software, if not itself open. For that matter, one can run any open-source software that can be ported to Darwin.
Perhaps what I'd really like is an Aqua de-installer, an automatic Apple peeler if you will.
> Would Fink ever offer a replacement for the kernel??
I meant, I think, would Fink ever make a free kernel available for download/installation. It would be nice to be able to get all my system updates from one place. And not having to pay for further OS X updates would be a boon. Indeed, if Fink maintained a separate kernel w/ appropriate libraries (whether Linux or Darwin), it seems to me that the system wouldn't be so destablized by major Apple OS changes (like 10.2 -> 10.3).
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