[X-Newbies]

[Steven Rogers]

On Nov 4, 2006, at 11:47 AM, Leah Aronoff wrote:

> Boy!  None of this sounds like Newbies talk to me.  It is  
> incomprehensible to me. . . .

Yeah - that's why I said "MacPorts is another package system like  
Fink" - for the purposes of this list, that's what it is.

Package systems are supposed to make installing and updating software  
that comes from the developer community work like "magic", the way  
Software Update works. For the user who wants it to just work without  
understanding all the details, I think MacPorts will be slightly more  
"magical" than Fink.

Most people won't have any reason to use a package system at all. But  
if you're a "newbie" to OS X coming from Linux, or coming from a PC  
programming background, the purpose of Fink/MacPorts would be clear.

SR