fink is basically apt-get with bells and whistles, but not that many bells and whistles, most of the features that fink provides are also provided by apt-get.
It seems that the major difference between apt-get and fink is that fink automatically downloads the source and compiles it if no binary package exists, this isn't done automatically by apt-get, but it is possible (by passing the -b argument to apt-get). The minor differences is that fink uses a different method of getting the list of packages by using rsync, instead of getting a flat file like apt-get. Sadly, fink depends on the existance of `foo.info' files that describe how to build the package, so this is a major drawback for pure source packages. But, since we have the GNU Build System we can ease things for us, and use something like the GNU Source Installer. That is what fink is, and frankley, I'm a bit disapointed... Thought that it would be a bit more fun; maybe some really obvious feature was missed, but all in all: fink is simply apt-get. _______________________________________________ gnu-system-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-system-discuss
