On Sat, 20 Apr 2002, Chris Luth wrote: > P.S. While I'm at it, I may as well tag on to the last paragraph: > Is the source any smaller of a download than the binary?
Good question. I'm not sure. I could see it going either way. Maybe you can compare file sizes on the website or something... > So, say I'm using X11 (Fink's install...is that the best way to go? Or > should I use one of the official binary distributions?) Meh, whatever. I think the important thing is just to get the X11 framework up and running. If you want to keep everything under Fink then go with that one. Myself I've got OroborOSX (for all rootless usage on top of Aqua) and XDarwin (for fullscreen use), but XDarwin by itself would be enough -- I just like how OroborOSX packages everything for OSX. > What would I do to get Gnome up and running? The main one to grab is bundle-gnome, which basically aggregates all the main components into one package with a lot of dependencies. You already seem to have a couple of the needed components (-libs, -print, -vfs), but I think there are half a dozen or ten direct dependencies, and those in turn probably have dependencies too. One "fink install bundle-gnome" will recursively find & grab everything you need there. > Also, for a 56K modem and a G4 350, would it be more time efficient to > do a source compiling of the Gnome stuff or to download the binaries? I'm not sure which will download faster -- at worst one might be twice as big as the other, but that's not that bad. On the other hand, the compile time is *way* slower than the download time, as in a modem download might be five minutes and it might be ten, but the configure/build time you get from compiling could easily run hours for everything you need here. On the other hand -- and this may be different now that 0.4.0 is out -- I personally have had less glitches with source installs than binary ones. A source install will match itself to what is detected on your system, and this can be optimized in certain ways that a binary install can't. (Though on the other hand, this may not make a difference when one Mac isn't all that different from others, compared to how different PCs can be, so maybe I'm overestimating the benefit there.) Personally, when I'm installing something big like Gnome, Mozilla, etc, I'll just make sure the downloads finished properly and then leave it running overnight. It can take as long as it wants without being a problem; I'll just start using the results the next morning. > Are the binaries behind the source (in terms of version) Typically there is a lag on the binary versions, though with the release of Fink 0.4.0 the stable versions should be at the same level for both binary & source downloads. > (This is a general question that's been nagging on my mind for a while.) > Also, just out of curiosity, why would anyone *not* want to have their > fink install set to update via CVS? You got me :) -- Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Apache / mod_perl / http://homepage.mac.com/chdevers/resume/ "More war soon. You know how it is." -- mnftiu.cc _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
