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> > What's wrong with the fucking mirrors? Why don't I just blow OS X away > and install Debian instead? At least it has a functional packaging system. I just simply blow away Fink. Finks sucks rotten eggs. Through a very thin straw. With big chunks in it. So far I think I have repeated the following cycle three times. There won't be a fourth time. (1) Install Fink to get software X installed. (2) Get X installed. (3) Install a few pieces of software (Y, Z) more. (4) Observer how Fink gets more and more unstable. (5) Try compiling something that hasn't been "finked" and notice that Fink has somehow fucked up the system outside of its tree. Yes, it should be impossible. (6) Realize you can live without X, Y, Z. (7) Uninstall Fink with rm -rf. (8) Reinstall X, Y, Z manually with configure --prefix=/opt or the moral equivalent and notice how Things Just Work. (9) Wonder why you ever though installing Fink was a good idea. The only excuse Fink has is following dependencies. And it doesn't get even them right. I don't know whether its Fink to blame or the packagers to blame. But I really don't have the time or interest to fix it. So fuck it. (The only package management I have ever personally seen "just work" was the BSD ports/packages system. It's like CPAN.pm, it just works. Pull down the source, configure, and compile it. No fucking binary installations. AFAICT Gentoo is similar for Linux.) -- Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@xxx.xx> http://www.iki.fi/jhi/ "There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'. It is 'dead'." -- Jack Cohen
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