Hello,
I *knew* that there had to be an important point I missed...
But, I have to say that in my system (as for I know) I only get
binaries only if I put the -b. Maybe there is something wrong in my
setup.
I have check fink's man page and it says:
"--no-use-binary-dist
Don't use pre-compiled binary packages from the binary distribu-
tion, opposite of the --use-binary-dist flag. This is the default
unless overridden by a setting in fink.conf configuration file."
It seems that the --no-b option is the default. I am confused now.
Javier
On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 5:45 PM, Alexander Hansen
<alexanderk.han...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On May 6, 2015, at 08:24, Javier Arantegui <javier.arante...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> 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
>>
>
> The good reason is that -b is already included by default when you use a
> “fink” command. At this point, it really only exists so that we can use
> —no-b to turn it off.
>
> --
> Alexander Hansen, Ph.D.
> Fink User Liaison
>
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