"fink...fink...fink"
"fink...fink...fink"
- Subject: "fink...fink...fink"
- From: Michael <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:09:09 -0800
On Wednesday, February 12, 2003, at 06:24 AM,
email@hidden wrote:
Message: 16
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 09:06:29 -0500
Subject: fink or no fink
From: Jeff Jolley <email@hidden>
To: email@hidden
My question is: do I really need to install/use fink? (plus other
post-fink questions...kinda rambly but I think it relates)
No. Fink is not a requirement.
It can make installation of some unix apps easier though.
I used it king ago, and then again more recently. Both times I
removed it after a few days. It's pretty neat with the Fink
Commander interface and all but I just decided I don't want a
separate software install location.
January 1998 - March 2001, I used Linux almost exclusively. Since
10.0, I've been an exclusive X-head (*OS*X-head). I've tried other
X11's onX (including tenon's HORRIBLE Xtools). I'm very excited about
X11.app. Since I used to build everything from scratch in linux, I
decided to build the Gimp from source. There was a lot of GNU-stuff
and libs that have to be built to get the Gimp to compile. But my
thinking is once I do that, and go through the process of building
Gnome and KDE, I've pretty much gone through all the installation
process needed to get all core libraries for most X11 apps. But I
check out lots of email lists and forums and I see NO COMMENTS AT ALL
(well, maybe 1) about people downloading source and building on
OSX+X11. Everyone says "fink...fink...fink" (please note: I'm not
bashing fink).
I've been using stand alone binary installs for my stuff.
Works fine since I'm new to Unix and X11 stuff.
My desktop setup is OSX .2.3, Enlightenment, gimp, eterm, OOo,
and anything else I find "I would like to try out" .
As you say, it's possible to compile many of the apps yourself.
I just think that many folks have equally different abilities and
tolerances to compiling resources rather than just clicking a
couple times ;)
I just like knowing that I've built the software for my machine and
that I (probably) don't have library inconsistencies and such.
Ooohh. A control freak eh? haha. just kidding.
I know I'll want to be talking to you if I have problems with a
particular build. I appreciate your knowledge.
Does apt-get/fink work in a way that will see what I manually build?
Or will it just blindly download it's version of glib-2.2.1, force the
install, then install the other package I want?
It detected the X11 install. But since fink installs into /sw,
replacing is
not usually an issue.
If you built from scratch directly to /sw? I think it does/can detect
what's
already installed whether by you or not, based on package receipts.
I'll let a more fink knowledgeable person dig me out of this hole my
mouth
has dug for me :)
---jeff
Michael
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