On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 12:14:33AM +0100, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: > 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).
There used to exist an apt-src project which would provide similar features (i.e. automatic compiles of new source packages and its build dependencies with user-specified patches), but it got discontinued by its author due to lack of interest by both him and its users (I think). Fink seems to provide a consistent command-line interface, whereas the regular Debian tools are scattered over several programs (dpkg, apt-get, apt-cache, dpkg-buildpackage etc.) > 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. If you want to check out the next generation, I suggest taking a look at conary[1], which blends rpm/apt and arch. It got developped by some of the original RPM authors and looks quite promising, but I never evaluated it myself. cheers, Michael -- [1] http://wiki.conary.com/ _______________________________________________ gnu-system-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-system-discuss
