How is Fink different from the BSD port mechanism (this includes OpenPackages and GNU-Darwin)?
Some main advantages: • It’s written in Perl, not make/shell. Thus it doesn’t rely on special features only found in BSD make. There is no need to flag packages that need GNU make to build. • dpkg provides sophisticated management for binary packages – smooth updating, special handling for configuration files, virtual packages and other advanced dependencies. • Fink doesn’t install into /usr/local unless explicitly requested and doesn’t require fiddling with /usr/bin/make or other system-provided commands. That makes it safer to use and reduces interference with Mac OS X and third-party packages to a minimum.
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