Something that struk me yesterday was that in Debian there are a lot of packages that doesn't contain any binaries, like the ispell dictionaries, and it would be nice if those where available in fink too. My question now is how much work is it to port these non-binary packages to Fink in general?
Careful here, ispell hash files are binary, and they are endian-specific. I don't know if there are other platform-dependent details, but a hash file from a i386.deb file certainly won't work on the ppc. You would at least need a ppc.deb.
Or can one use "dpkg --root=/sw --install package-directly-from-Debian.deb" (or whatever is correct syntax) to install e.g. a ispell dictionary that isn't already available?
There are more path differences between debian and OSX, for example debian puts the ispell *.hash and *.aff into /usr/lib/ispell/, whereas fink puts them directly into /sw/lib/. What you can do is unpack the deb file somewhere else ("dpkg -x ispell*.deb /tmp/TMP") and copy the interesting files over.
Would the installation scripts in the packages work /in general/?
I wouldn't bet on it.
-- Martin
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