X11 Apps and Fink / Macports
X11 Apps and Fink / Macports
- Subject: X11 Apps and Fink / Macports
- From: "Joseph W. Losco" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 10:25:01 -0400
Hello Usersgroup,
I've been reading for about 6 months or so, but never really got
involved in discussion because I don't have anywhere the knowledge of
most of the users here. But I've been wondering something in the back
of my mind for quite some time now, and figured I might as well ask.
I started with X11 in Ubuntu, and got spoiled pretty quick with the
massive amount of packages available and through the repository
installer that they have. And they've been rapidly becoming a very
strong operating system, but I got tired of the hardware issues and
not being able to get programs I use all the time working without some
serious tinkering. That was about 6 months ago, when I bought my
Macbook pro and started playing with Fink, because of the dpkg
installer, and how close it was to debian styles. However I found
out pretty quick that the packages available are not near what was
available for Ubuntu, I then tried MacPorts and found pretty much the
same thing. I tried compiling myself with a prefix to put things in a
third directory tree, but ran into issues because I'm not sure of all
of the ins and outs in getting all of the linking and flags correct.
So after my longer winded introduction, my question is
I know this probably isn't possible right now but, how hard would it
be to link to something such as the ubuntu repositories and install
debian packages, or to do a source install from the debian/ubuntu
repositories. The way Fink works, I'd think its pretty close, but
maybe I'm not clear on how it has to be compiled for OSX. I mean is
there a reason that Fink uses its own repository since it uses the
debian type installer?
Thanks in advance for any opinions, comments, etc.
Joe
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