Also, the new PDF file on the Fun With Fink site implies that XDarwin and Apple's X11 can coexist peacefully. Is that true?
Yes and no.
The answer depends on what you understand by XDarwin and by Apple's X11.
An xfree86 package consists of several parts. Of the roughly 100 MB that you find in /usr/X11R6, /etc/X11, and /Applications/, more than 90% are libraries, fonts, header files and some general binaries. These can exist only once on your system, and Apple's X11 provides different versions from what you install by Fink or from other sources like XonX. So for these 90% there is no peaceful coexistence.
On top of this, you have the X server proper, like X11.app or XDarwin.app plus some binaries in /usr/X11R6/bin. There you can have different X servers at the same time. You can run X11.app on top of X libraries installed from fink, if you add one or two of Apple's specific libraries. You can call this peaceful coexistence, but you lose Apple's hardware accelerated graphics. The other way round, namely running XDarwin or OroborOSX on top of Apple's X libraries, doesn't work AFAIK.
Then there is the window manager. Here again, you can run Apple's quartz-wm on top of a standard non-Apple xfree86 system if you add one or two Apple-specific components.
-- Martin
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