Personally, I'd first install everything I can via Fink, more convenient, and manually only those programs that cannot be installed via Fink.
And then make a Fink package out of those that are open source.
Some remarks:
Chia Hung wrote:
Nevertheless, there are many OS X ports out there that Fink does not have packages for and some do require these libraries installed by Fink.
If you can compile them yourself, you can also make Fink packages out of them.
I get scared when they said that these programs might have problems
finding Fink installed components as they look for certain files (not
during compiling/configuration/install, but the actual execution of the
program) in specific places.
If they find the Fink libraries at configuration and compile time, they will also find them at runtime. On Darwin, the paths to dynamic libraries are usually hardcoded in the executable.
If they don't find them at configuration time, then either you don't give the right configuration parameters, or their configure scripts are stupid. Making stupid configure scripts mroe instelligent is one of the standard tasks of Fink package descriptions.
At the same time, I would like to make symbolic links to these Fink
installed components/files in where they normally would reside so that
my manually installed program won't "break".
It not not harder to change "/usr/local/lib" to "/sw/lib" in some configure script than to make a symbolic link in /usr/local/lib to libraries in /sw/lib. It is much cleaner, too.
Also, do you guys recommend me to "mix and match" programs/packages this way?
As you can probably guess, I personally don't.
-- Martin
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