Hi, I'm Dave, and I've hated Fink ever since it came out.
Just kidding ;)
I like Fink because it opens up a lot of good X11 type OSS stuff for
me. I wish all this stuff was Aquafied, and OS X GUI compliant, but
just having the GIMP on my machine is a blast. I doubt I'll ever need
Photoshop again.
I think Apple has a beautiful, elegant OS here for the most part, and I
wish every app ran truly native on it. I am still impressed, looking
back at what I thought was a Faustian bargain, going to Unix might
sacrifice some of the MacOS ease of use. I can happily laugh at this
concern now.
As a developer, the MacOS and OS X have always inspired me to write
good software, easy to install, yadda yadda.
I am glad to see Apple providing an X11 windowing environment to allow
X11 apps to run on an OS X box. I see this and the qt libraries for OS
X as a real "meeting people halfway" behavior from Apple. Geez, now
they give their entire developer suite away for free. I am sure Apple
realizes this is a good policy.
I doubt more than 10% of the OS X user base uses X11 or the Unixy stuff
on a regular basis, but that 10% is important- the power users, the
developers, the scitech crowd here.
I always try to balance ease of use vs bloat, Apple has made it pretty
easy for the most part. If you're going to use Fink, great, I treat it
and X11 like the Classic environment- a little more baggage to carry
around over the standard install, but hey, if you're going to use it,
great (and X11 is better behaved IMHO than Classic)
Use what works for you- don't count on non standard installs, try to
keep the bloat down. Hey, we can all live happily under this roof, no?
Dave
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