I don't want to start a flame war, as a matter of fact I'm trying to head one off. It seems that every so often fink users need to be reminded that fink is a completely free resource. It only exists because of the vision of some and the virtually tireless work of many people. Fink is not shrink wrapped software (even most commercial software includes statement in the license that no guarantee is made that the software will do anything useful). For those who may have have joined the fink "wagon" lately, a bit of history is in order.
The entire fink project was initially conceived and executed by Christoph Pfisterer. He made an enormous contribution to OS X being accepted by *nix folks. I would go so far as to say part of the success of OS X in general can be attributed to Christoph. After enduring countless individuals who seemed to take the resource for granted and assumed that it was a service to which they were entitled, he had had enough. He has essentially moved away from the whole project. Just be aware that when you post to the list for help, you are not entitled to a response. If a project member posts a response that may seem a little edgy, just remember that they are doing this fink thing for free. He or she may have answered the same question several times in the same week. Often there are posts to the list complaining about this that or the other. It's not very often that the people that use fink even stop to acknowledge the effort made by those who make fink possible. Remember that the list is a place to ask for help, if you don't get the kind of response you were expecting you can have double your money back for what you spent for fink. Just chill out a bit, please! Phil On Saturday, August 10, 2002, at 07:47 PM, Ben Hines wrote: > > On Saturday, August 10, 2002, at 05:55 PM, paul beard wrote: > >> >> >> Ben Hines wrote: >> >> >> >>> What does "fink list xfree" say? You have some conflict somewhere.. >>> Have you made any packages yourself? Always depend on "x11" never >>> xfree86-*. >>> -Ben >> >> I'm not sure why I have to get two copies of "blame the end user 'cuz >> it works for me" when one is too many. > > > I see. Well, good luck in solving your problem then! > > -Ben > > PS. Hint: http://makeashorterlink.com/?Y22052D71 ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
