On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, Colin Barrett wrote:
> What are the advantages of each?
They all get you to the same place, so differences are mainly on the level
of interface variations. dpkg and apt are the command line tools that the
others are at least partly built around, and a lot of people -- especially
those comfortable with Debian Linux -- prefer using them directly. dselect
provides a curses-based full console interface; fink which aims to provide
a "issue one command & it does all the work" command line wrapper. Then
there's the upcoming FinkCommander graphical interface, which as a dselect
user you might like to try as it develops.
> Are these better somehow?
Not really, it's mostly a matter of taste.
> I know fink gets the source instead of a
> binary, but does that really make much of a difference?
Nope. I thought it might, but Mac soundly corrected me there. There is no
difference between binary vs. source installs, ultimately.
> Also, can fink remove the .deb files like dselect, or do I have to do
> them manually.
No, the .deb is left alone. From Fink's manpage:
remove package...
The remove command removes packages from the system by calling
`dpkg --remove'. The current implementation has several fundamen-
tal flaws. It only works on packages Fink knows about (i.e. .info
file is present). It doesn't check dependencies. It makes one dpkg
invocation per packages, thus not allowing dpkg to reorder accord-
ing to dependencies.
The remove command only removes the actual package files, but
leaves the .deb compressed package file intact. This means that you
can re-install the package later without going through the compile
process again. If you need the disk space, you can remove the .deb
from the /sw/fink/dists tree.
Aliases: disable, deactivate, unuse, delete, purge
> Sorry for asking so many questions ^_^;;;;
No problem :)
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