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View CommentsFink, new PDB

• hex

  2007-10-07 at 00:41

  I wish all these package managers died, in favor of one single PM to rule them all. I can only think of one reason which makes this impossible: stubborn developers.

• indeyets

  2007-10-07 at 01:27

  1) what made you so mad?
  2) fink is not about managing packages. It’s about porting packages to macos-x realities (manging is still made by apt-get and dpkg)

• hex

  2007-10-13 at 16:55

  I wasn’t mad, I just really think that one good PM should be enough. OSX might really be a special case, although I’m not sure about it, but even in the Linux world there’s just too many. I think that with proper management, one package repository would be enough.

• indeyets

  2007-10-13 at 17:03

  in an ideal world, packages just compile on any system out-of-the-box…

  in the real world, even “standard” c apis are not standard enough, and there are a lot of custom ones… :-/

  there are really high hopes, that leopard will make osx more similiar to common *bsd and solaris systems