>>>>> "Brett C." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (BC) wrote:
>BC> Russell E. Owen wrote: >>> I've seen a lot of discussion lately about fink and darwinports and I'm >>> wondering if folks who have experience with either can comment on their >>> relative merits? >>> >BC> I personally have run Fink in the past multiple times and always end up >BC> deleting it in the end. DarwinPorts, on the other hand, I have yet to >BC> uninstall. The package config files are easy to read by eye (it is >BC> basically Tcl code). I also just like how the system is set up using the >BC> command line; never liked how Fink works that way. >BC> And their idea of activation (can have multiple installs of the same thing >BC> with different configs; just activate to choose which one to use) is nice. >BC> Plus having Jordan Hubbard on the team is nice (former member of FreeBSD >BC> who now works at Apple for those who don't know). =) I just removed fink from my system and am reinstalling the things that I need with darwinports (most of it, some things I still have manually installed). Fink invades your system and it wants to install all kinds of things that I don't want such as other python versions. Darwinports is less invading. However, darwinports doesn't always state all dependencies which means you might have to be a bit more careful. By the way, I install darwinports in /usr/local because I don't want yet another directory tree. There are still traces of /sw/lib in my installed software but once these are used they fail. I am working on finding all traces and removing them. -- Piet van Oostrum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> URL: http://www.cs.uu.nl/~piet [PGP] Private email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
