Re: address@hidden: Fink]

[Michael Banck]

On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 12:14:33AM +0100, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
> It seems that the major difference between apt-get and fink is that
> fink automatically downloads the source and compiles it if no binary
> package exists, this isn't done automatically by apt-get, but it is
> possible (by passing the -b argument to apt-get).

There used to exist an apt-src project which would provide similar
features (i.e. automatic compiles of new source packages and its build
dependencies with user-specified patches), but it got discontinued by
its author due to lack of interest by both him and its users (I think).

Fink seems to provide a consistent command-line interface, whereas the
regular Debian tools are scattered over several programs (dpkg, apt-get,
apt-cache, dpkg-buildpackage etc.)

> That is what fink is, and frankley, I'm a bit disapointed... Thought
> that it would be a bit more fun; maybe some really obvious feature was
> missed, but all in all: fink is simply apt-get.

If you want to check out the next generation, I suggest taking a look at
conary[1], which blends rpm/apt and arch.  It got developped by some of
the original RPM authors and looks quite promising, but I never
evaluated it myself.


cheers,

Michael

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[1] http://wiki.conary.com/