Re: X11 article, for review
Re: X11 article, for review
On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 05:43:05PM +0200, Volker A. Brandt wrote:
> Hi Rich,
> Well, if you do mention fink, please mention also that:
>
> o the fink people force you to adopt a non-standard path (/sw) with
> no chance of changing it to something sensible (e.g. /opt/local,
> /usr/local or whatever)
You can change it, so I'm told, but you probably wouldn't want to. Lots
of stuff breaks. By putting it somewhere unlikely to be used by
anything else, the fink maintainers are less likely to have user
complaints about problems with other bits of really local software.
This means I can bung anything I like in /opt or /usr/local without
worrying about it trampling on fink.
This is a Good Thing, at least in my opinion.
> o they make it very hard to find the patches used to compile
> open source packages for fink, thus making it impossible to
> reuse the hard work the many good contributors to fink did
This is a shame, since the Debian system on which it is based is very
good for this; you can download a tarball and a compressed diff file
required to debianize it.
> PS to the list: Don't want to start a flame war so please insult me
> privately :-)
No intention of doing either. :-)
Tim
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Dr Tim Cutts
Informatics Systems Group
Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1SA, UK
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