On Sunday, January 12, 2003, at 04:18 PM, Heather Madrone wrote:
And I can't see the point of fink. It didn't strike me as all that useful,Fink provides two things:
just another gronky system to have to learn to use.
1) a repository of patches which get Unix software to build & install properly on OS X
2) a real package management system that tracks dependencies
I don't feel like figuring out #1 for everything I download and build, and #2 has obvious benefits. Add to that the capability to do binary installs of big unixy stuff like X11, and I think there's a compelling case for Fink's existence.
That said, I'm using it less than I used to - not because it's broken anything for me, but because I pretty much have already installed everything I need from it.
-Ken
