Re: what does you think of fink?

[Ryan Dooley <dooleyr@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> INST on IRIX.  handled package versioning fairly well, and handled things 
> like conflicting OS patches very well.  Of course the latter doesn't 
> matter much when you do most maintainence from source the way we generally 
> do.

*shudder*... rqsall on an O2... *shudder*

Inst I never really took to, it always seemed to be cumbersome at best 
but your right, for all the pain it caused it kept conflicts in software 
to a minimum (the only issues I ever encountered where switching from 
maintenance to feature or vice versa).


> Both of the above worked better than Solaris' patch+package system,
> and infinitely better than FreeBSD's.

Amen to that ;-)

I find the biggest issues are upgrading "core system" and breaking a 
"/usr/local" package because the (ports) installed don't inform the 
package manager that they are dependant on something the core provides.

Having a package manager that is aware of both sides and will tell you 
that you are about to break something would just be cool.

Cheers,
Ryan