[X-Newbies]

[Mike Binstock]

For someone who has used Fink (not really liked it) i
never realized MacPorts was a better option. I am
looking forward to trying it out. Normally what I do
now, after 5 years in this environment, is manually
way of making a file which is very combuersome. The
last few packages I have downloaded have installed
themselves which is fantastically easier then before. 
 


--- Philip J Robar <philip.robar at gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> On Nov 4, 2006, at 10:47 AM, Steven Rogers wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> This is the point I was ultimately trying to make.
> If a new user uses  
> Fink to install a command line UNIX or X11 program
> than they end up  
> with an command line environment that will be subtly
> and confusingly  
> different from OS X's command line environment. A
> new users would be  
> much better off using MacPorts, unless the program
> they were after was  
> only available via Fink, and if they choose to go
> with Fink I wanted  
> them to be aware of this potential confusion.
> 
> Fink is great if you explicitly want to have a
> GNU/Linux like  
> environment available on OS X, but for new users
> MacPorts is the  
> better choice because it uses OS X's UNIX facilities
> instead of  
> replacing it with a similar, but subtly different
> one.
> 
> 
> Phil
> 
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