On Thursday, August 22, 2002, at 12:35 AM, Puneet Kishor wrote: > well, yeah, kind of. I know, I know, there is fink. But it > seems package > manager seems to be the holy grail... even Apple is rumored to > be searching > for it (some email messages from Jordan Hubbard come to mind). > But, every > *nix flavor has its own, and never do they meet.
Yeah, that's a bummer. > Since OS X is such a tightly integrated convergence of the gui > and command line world, screwing around with one can muck up > the other (and vice versa). Since I have chosen to live in the > hard drive as defined by Apple, I have now decided I will wait > for a package manager system with Cupertino's holy water > sprinkled on it. I understand that impulse, but something like fink is still immensely valuable. Fink acknowledges that the general system doesn't use a package manager, but it still lets you create a cordoned-off section of the system in which you can get the benefits of dependency tracking, uninstalls that work, and so on. Since fink doesn't touch the system and the system doesn't touch fink, this is a pretty safe way to go. > > CPAN is fine because it already assumes Perl installed. I screwed up by > reinstalling Perl itself, and don't know how to "roll back." Hence the > chagrin. Yeah. Well, the real solution is, of course, "you should have had a backup." Not very helpful now, I'm sure. Wouldn't it be possible to extract /System/Library/Perl and /usr/bin/perl* from the Apple installation CD? Failing that, perhaps somebody could just create a tarball of their installation and let you copy it. If 5.6.0 worked/installed very easily on OS X, then you could just reinstall it, but unfortunately that's not the case. You shouldn't have to labor with a broken perl, in any case. -Ken
