On Thursday, September 19, 2002, at 07:36 PM, Rog�rio Brito wrote:
> 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? > Look in the fink-devel mailing list archives for the answer... Basically, fink's .info file is less cumbersome than the debian build system. Jeremy ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
