On Sep 19 2002, Max Horn wrote:
> Sorry but I have to correct this: we can not "merge back" with
> debian, as we never "split off" of debian. Fink is a completly
> independant project. We only happen to use the same lower level
> tools (dpkg/apt). Otherwise we are completly unrelated.
Please forgive my ignorant question, but why exactly does the
Fink project uses the fink program for part of the package
management and apt for the other part? Why couldn't "apt-get
source" be used like in Debian?
As you can see from my question, I am relatively experienced
with Debian (have made some packages of my own), but am still
learning about fink.
To be honest, the way things are explained in the
documentation of the project left me with many questions like
"is fink actually two distributions, one source based and
another with binary packages?"
As a newcomer to the project, I see that most of the problems
that people seem to have with fink is during the phase of
building packages. :-(
If the limitation is space/hosting, perhaps the project could
negotiate with some partner to see if they would want to host
the Fink project...
It would certainly make things easier for people and would
change the nature of the discussions held on the mailing
lists, IMHO.
Ok. I'll stop now and see what the opinion of those running
the project is before I continue with the comments.
[]s, Roger...
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