Fink would no longer be useful to me if it was such a project. I don't see why not. I'm perfectly sure you could choose not to see anything related to GNU/Linux or GNU/Darwin, just like you can choose to see the unstable branch, or not.
what do you see as Fink's "edge" over these other distributions? I'm not a great afficianado of other package managers/linux distributions. The "edge" I'm talking about is really more social than technical - lots of mac users already have Fink installed on their computers, and Fink is very easy to use. I think a lot of people are put off by the difficulty and/or disruptiveness of switching OSes. If Fink made that process as easy and seamless as installing emacs or rxvt, I bet a lot more people would be running a free software system on the ppc platform. 2. Can you provide more details? an example? It is just an idea, there aren't any examples that I know of. The point is that under the current Fink system, changing compile time options can put you at serious risk of the software not working. I'm just talking about a tool that would reduce or eliminate that risk by filling dependencies at compile time. This would be a fairly large "knowledge encoding" project (the more you want the package manager to know, the larger the project is). ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. Build and deploy apps & Web services for Linux with a free DVD software kit from IBM. Click Now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1356&alloc_id=3438&op=click _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
