Re: X11 article, for review
Re: X11 article, for review
- Subject: Re: X11 article, for review
- From: Michèle Garoche <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 19:25:25 +0200
Le lundi, 31 mars 2003, ` 17:43 Europe/Paris, Volker A. Brandt a icrit :
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)
First, you can change the default location if you download the sources
via cvs, even put them on an external disk (I don't say that from
rumors, I did it on a Mac whose hard drive was too small).
Second, the non standard path is a safety measure to avoid overriding
some packages already installed, i.e. you have an old version of a
package on your system (for example provided by the vendor) and you
want to use a new one. You can test it without having the trouble of
reinstalling parts of your system components if you don't like the new
version. At least, that's the way I understand it.
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
Again, if you use the cvs mechanism, the patches are all grouped
together in well-known locations, you can access them, change them as
you like, recompile and so on and even put the sources in non standard
directories (Again I did it to test patches or producing bug reports
and I'm not a Fink developer). I wonder what you could ask for with all
those possibilities.
For binaries releases, I don't see the need to have patches, but, well
I may be wrong :-)
And last, I don't flame here, I just want to tell the truth. I'm just a
very happy Jaguar and Fink user and use Jaguar, Apple's X11 and
XDarwin from Fink - sometimes together - running multiple remote X
sessions via ssh, so that sometimes I find it's a pity I've only 10
fingers. Briefly, as the vast majority of Macintosh users, I try to
use the best of each tool.
Michhle
<http://micmacfr.homeunix.org/>
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