Simon Urbanek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Monday, June 16, 2003, at 08:45 PM, Don MacQueen wrote:
>> Can you give specific and substantive reasons why fink should be >> avoided? > > Jan already listed the main technical reasons why it is indeed a very > good idea. Apart from that, fink is not an official package and was > only meant as a temporary solution for people who need a (no matter > how ugly) way to run existing unix programs on OS X. Hardly any real > OS X user has installed fink (especially since Jaguar is out). Fink > was great during the first couple of months when native OS X ports > were hardly existent, but is now obsolete for mainstream OS X use. I think completely agree with Simon here. MacOSX is great for folks that like the good things in life, but for chumps who just want a Unix variant, run a PPC Unix (linux or *bsd or the like). There are just enough differences to create user-interface stress, depending on the particular system configuration... (of course, I'm one of those who has been using a unix variant for almost 20 years now, and with the onset of senility, that isn't going to change). best, -tony -- A.J. Rossini / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://software.biostat.washington.edu/ UNTIL IT MOVES IN JULY. Biomedical and Health Informatics, University of Washington Biostatistics, HVTN/SCHARP, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center FHCRC: 206-667-7025 (fax=4812)|Voicemail is pretty sketchy/use Email CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail message and any attachments ... {{dropped}} ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
