fink or no fink
fink or no fink
- Subject: fink or no fink
- From: Jeff Jolley <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 09:06:29 -0500
My question is: do I really need to install/use fink? (plus other
post-fink questions...kinda rambly but I think it relates)
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 just like knowing that I've built the software for my machine and
that I (probably) don't have library inconsistencies and such. But
maybe w/ OSX+X11 it's not as simple as "./configure", see what's
missing, build that source (maybe build a dependancy for the
dependancy), "./configure ; make ; make install". Gimp WAS a pain to
build.
I know that fink is basically dpkg and apt-get. I've never used a
debian-based linux, just mandrake (rpm-based). I know that RPM has a
problem knowing if you've installed something manually, rpm doesn't
know about it.
(let's say I manually build glib-2.2.1, then want to RPM install
something that requires it. I have to do some sort of -nodeps option
to tell RPM to ignore checking that dependancy: or get the
glib-2.2.1.rpm, install over my build, then install new pkg.)
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?
---jeff
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