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On 12/19/11 5:53 PM, Marc Coevoet wrote:
> Op 19-12-11, Alexander Hansen schreef:
> 
>> Fink is __not__ a port apt-get/dpkg.  Fink __uses__
>> apt-get/dpkg.
> 
>> The "fink" tool has always been a method to build packages from
>> source automatically.  The Debian tools were added later.
> 
> 
> Yes, but I have os x 10.6 and fink list only gives me 313
> packages.
> 

You haven't downloaded any package descriptions, cf. the message from
Hans.

> I suppose Apple changed SO MUCH that source packages do not compile
> out of the box?
> 

Quite a number of them don't, or require tweaking.

> I've been looking at macports, and there are 13000 available...
> 
> 

We have about as many for 10.5 and 10.6.  10.7 has fewer, because
we're testing packages before we add them there rather than assuming
that they work.

> Would it be possible to add source packages in
> /etc/apt/sources.list (and why not?).
> 
> 
> Marc
> 
> --

No.

1)  We use /sw/etc/apt/sources.list (for a default install)
2) Fink is not Debian.  We _only_ use the apt tool to handle .deb files.

- -- 
Alexander Hansen, Ph.D.
Fink User Liaison
http://finkakh.wordpress.com/
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