Hello, I've been using Fink for 10 years or so. First I want to thank all the developers and volunteers that make this wonderful tool available.
I didn't remember that several years ago I was member of this list. It seems I was more active in 2008 and in 2011. My email is for something that has bothered me for the last 6 years or maybe more. When you use 'fink self-update', you get this familiar message: The core packages have been updated. You should now update the other packages using commands like 'fink update-all'. Wouldn't it be better if it said 'fink -b update-all'. I believe that most of the users don't need to download the source code and compile themselves. Downloading binaries make the process faster and much more efficient. You can save a lot of time and energy! Imagine how many hours of power computing are lost because fink users are recompliling packages that are compiled already. Probably the users that need to compile all the packages know that they need to type 'fink update-all'. There is a big chance that there is a good reason to say 'fink update-all' instead 'fink -b update-all', but I don't see it. Best regards, Javier ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ One dashboard for servers and applications across Physical-Virtual-Cloud Widest out-of-the-box monitoring support with 50+ applications Performance metrics, stats and reports that give you Actionable Insights Deep dive visibility with transaction tracing using APM Insight. http://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/290420510;117567292;y _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list Fink-users@lists.sourceforge.net List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.macosx.fink.user Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
