Just curious here if a directory needed to be created for fink (eg: /sw) why 
wasn't /usr/local/fink created instead?  I realize that you didn't want 
stuff fink installed overwritten, but very few programs actually create 
directories in /usr/local (mysql, apache, and some nntp daemons being the 
few I can think of off hand)  and none of them create a /usr/local/fink 
directory that I'm aware of.
It just seems overkill to require write privaledges to / to install fink. 
The main point of /usr/local is to have a directory tree an Administrator 
account can be set up to modify, without needing to have root privaledges.
Then again, I doubt that many people are configuring OSX boxes for 
multi-user, including network logins, with the need for an Admin without 
root level permissions.  Just my 2 cents on the default install location.

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