On Feb 5, 2004, at 3:02 AM, Martin Costabel wrote:
Stephen Fisher wrote:Being new to Linux in general why do some applications appear under Fink and others not? For example Galeon is listed as web browser for Gnome. Gnumeric, Abiword and other gnome applications are listed in Fink but not Galeon, Balsa, and Evolution.
Last time I looked, galeon and evolution existed as Fink packages.
<AKH> And they are in the unstable tree, so you will only see them if you turn that tree on.
Fink packages do not just "appear" out of the blue sky. Some volunteer has to port them, make them work on Mac OS X and together with the other Fink packages. So if something does not "appear" in the list of Fink packages, this either means no one bothered to look at it or no one found the time necessary to port it.
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