[X-Newbies]

[Leah Aronoff]

Boy!  None of this sounds like Newbies talk to me.  It is 
incomprehensible to me.  I'm a real basic Newbie, who worries about 
things like how external drives work as backups, and which is best to 
use, and how much do they cost, and stuff like that. . . . Leah

On Nov 4, 2006, at 2:00 AM, Philip J Robar wrote:

>
> On Nov 3, 2006, at 10:07 PM, Jeff Allison wrote:
>
>> On 04/11/2006, at 4:55 , Philip J Robar wrote:
>>
>>> I also recommend MacPorts, but want to make clear that it's not just 
>>> "another package system like Fink". Fink installs a GNU/SYSV like 
>>> UNIX environment that interposes itself over OS X's UNIX environment 
>>> (I, myself, would say gets in the way of.), whereas MacPorts 
>>> directly leverages OS X's UNIX environment.
>>
>> I'm not sure where you get that idea from what I can see fink goes 
>> out of its way to avoid messing with OSX, the whole thing lives is 
>> /sw
>
> MacPorts is a collection of UNIX/POSIX software ported to OS X. It 
> uses and leverages OS X's UNIX. Fink installs an entire GNU 
> environment: libraries, headers, and utilities. To use Fink 
> effectively you have to put /sw at the front of your path, thus Fink 
> requires you to interpose it on top of, or in my view, in place of OS 
> X's native UNIX facilities.
>
> Phil
>
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