Basically Fink (capital F) is everything: all of the binary packages, description files to build from source, commands (including apt-get, dselect, dpkg, fink)
fink (small f) is just the command-line tool to perform operation involving sources, along with some other stuff.
I'm not sure, but I think the reason for having the same name but different capitals is a Unix-geeky thing--since Unix is notorious for case-sensitivity.
In any case, I've been harping on this because I work with the documentation (though I didn't do anything for chapter 6, yet), and so I've been trying to get a flavor for things that are unclear.
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Alexander Hansen
Levitated Dipole Experiment
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On Feb 4, 2004, at 3:14 PM, Dan Schroeder wrote:
On Feb 4, 2004, at 12:19 PM, Alexander K. Hansen wrote:
How about http://fink.sourceforge.net/doc/users-guide/packages.php -- the headings do say Binary | Source in them.
Yeah, I eventually saw that. What happened was I started reading that page, got totally bewildered by the first two sections (on X11 and dselect), then went back to the table of contents where I saw that there was a whole page (6) on controlling Fink from the command line. At the time I naively assumed that the "fink" command could be used to access any of Fink's capabilities. To tell you the truth, I'm still not real clear on the difference between Fink ("a distribution of Unix Open Source software for Mac OS X and Darwin") and fink (a unix command that seems to control some, but not all, of the elements of Fink). There wasn't much (just the word "build", which I interpreted too broadly) in chapter 6 to tip me off to the fact that "fink install" was ONLY for installing from source. Perhaps chapter 6 should also cover apt-get?
Dan
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