On Sat, 11 Oct 2003, Benjamin Reed wrote:

> User-mode fink is useful to a very small part of the fink population, 

Not so. At work I lack root on many of the *nix boxes I use, so I
regularly build and install the stuff I need in ~/local.  A package
manager like fink would be a godsend for this purpose.

I grant that I don't *need* usermode fink; I can do without a package
manager, or beg some admin to fink install package-X, or I can beg for
root.  All of which I do.

I would say user-mode fink is useless only to the part of the fink
population that doesn't use *nix software in a academic, lab, or work
environment with lots of Macintoshes.

-- K



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