I'm not sure if you got a response to your initial message or not. Apple has added a number of new open source pacakges with each major release of OS X. So far, fink's philosophy has been to keep providing a fink version of the package, even after Apple is providing their own. (The only exception to this that I can recall is with "libz", which is no longer provided by fink.)
There are several reasons for this. One is that we don't yet trust Apple to be consistent in what they provide. (For example, they used to provide wget, which fink relied on, and then at a certain point they switched to curl. So we no longer trust them to provide either one of these, since they might switch back.) A second reason is that many users will already have the fink version of the library linked in to their packages, and upgrading becomes pretty tricky if we were to try to revert to Apple's version. A third reason is that Apple is not always good about keeping packages "current", and fink does that more frequently. All of that being said, there may be some reason to drop a few of the packages which Apple has added (or which they will add in 10.3). but these should be discussed on a case by case basis. -- Dave ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET sites including Data Reports, E-commerce, Portals, and Forums are available now. Download today and enter to win an XBOX or Visual Studio .NET. http://aspnet.click-url.com/go/psa00100003ave/direct;at.aspnet_072303_01/01 _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
