Re: what does you think of fink?

[Dan Melomedman <dan@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

esmith wrote:
> 
> Matt's stated plan for packages sounds great and has the obvious 
> advantage of versioning over fink ( debian pkg wrapper for Apple's "OS 
> X"/Darwin ). Fink is the most interesting binary-only package system 
> I've actually yet used.
> 
> Is there any other presently available pakaging system that is easier 
> and more reliable to use than fink?
> 
> http://fink.sourceforge.net/

Not directly related, but this is also an interesting and simple way to
organize packages and avoid collisions (perhaps too radical for most
people, but it did gain a small community of packagers):

http://cr.yp.to/slashpackage.html

http://cr.yp.to/slashcommand.html