On Nov 12, 2006, at 4:06 PM, David H wrote:
> This is also based on the fact that I rarely get feedback. If I knew
> that my package is widely used I have a commitment to that small users
> base that my package has. As a diligent person I would be more obliged
> to actually update those packages
>I went to the web site and looked at the packages without .
>aintainers. It was 11 pages long, for a total of 503 packages out of
>6435 listed in my install. That is 7.8%, which on the face of it
>does not seem bad. However, this list is growing fast. The last
>time I looked, the list ha
On 11/12/06, Neil Tiffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> On Nov 11, 2006, at 5:07 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote:
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> > Moreover the big reason to have the -shlibs and -dev splitoffs is
> > ideally to keep from breaking a metric ton of packages if you update a
> > shared library which happens to be bina
On Nov 11, 2006, at 5:07 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote:
> Moreover the big reason to have the -shlibs and -dev splitoffs is
> ideally to keep from breaking a metric ton of packages if you update a
> shared library which happens to be binary incompatible with the prior
> version. You can generate -s
On 11/11/06, Neil Tiffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> On Nov 11, 2006, at 12:23 PM, William Scott wrote:
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> > 1. Is there in fact significant dissatisfaction? (Lots of people
> > use alternatives like MacPorts, but that doesn't mean that they have
> > all rejected fink. If someone uses an alt
On Nov 11, 2006, at 12:23 PM, William Scott wrote:
> 1. Is there in fact significant dissatisfaction? (Lots of people
> use alternatives like MacPorts, but that doesn't mean that they have
> all rejected fink. If someone uses an alternative, or does stuff
> manually, as a matter of taste, I pe
Hi Folks:
It seems I've opened a can of worms. Sorry.
My original concern was whether a significant number of users are
turning away from fink in favor of other options, and if so, whether
this was due to reasons that are valid and ought to be addressed.
The first response snapped me out of
