Sounds like someone needs a hug. ;-)
I feel your pain. MacPorts will remove a lot of the
pain, but not all.
The .profile vs. .bash_profile issue is one that
SHOULD be documented in the wiki. I would document it
<cough><cough> if someone would tell me how to get
write access to the wiki <cough><cough>.
I don't know why MacPorts defaults to editing your
.profile file. bash is the default shell, and it uses
.bash_profile.
You're romanticizing France. The reason people there
have free time is because they're all unemployed.
Fink installs to a "non-standard" location (/sw)
because it's safer that way. For the most part unix
doesn't care where any files are, and that way fink
doesn't need to worry about file/directory name
conflicts. MacPorts does the exact same thing except
it uses /opt instead of /sw.
Remember that supporting unix apps isn't Apple's first
priority. Their OS pretty well works as shipped, you
can't expect too much beyond that.
Jeff
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