On Feb 5, 2005, at 6:27 AM, Michael Twomey wrote:
On Sat, 05 Feb 2005 11:57:01 +0100, Piet van Oostrum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:"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.Funny, I generally prefer fink precisely because it uses /sw. It keeps itself neatly inside /sw (source, intermediate build, final installation). For a unix head like myself I couldn't ask any more. I generally dislike a packaging system using /usr/local instead of their own prefix, as it is almost gauranteed to tread on other self compiled apps (or downloaded apps). /usr/local is meant to be for sys admins local installs of apps, a strong packaging system should use another prefix.
Dawinports uses /opt/local, not /usr/local. It was Piet's *choice* to install to /usr/local (though, like you, I would never ever do that).
The BIGGEST problem with fink is that it pollutes your environment if you want to use it. It expects you to have a whole script's worth of evil inside your shell at all times.
Another reason is that it is based on the debian apt packaging system, so you have a very controlled build environment. Their .info package descriptions are succint and it is easy to roll your own packages.
Controlled?! By who? Certainly not the user.
-bob
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