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On Thu, 14 Apr 2011 07:44:55 -0400, Warren Oates wrote:

> In article <pan.2011.04.14.00.20.29@moria.lan>,
>  Dan C <youmustbejoking@lan.invalid> wrote:
> 
>> ...and wondering what some of you experienced users think of it.  Seems
>> like a cool way to run some open-source apps that are not natively
>> available on the Mac.  For instance, the 'Pan' newsreader that I am
>> fond of in Linux, would love to be able to run that on the Mac.
>> 
>> Any thoughts on this Fink thing?  Does it work well?  Thanks.
> 
> I have all my open-source stuff self-compiled and installed in
> /usr/local (and ~/bin for my experimental Apache/PHP 5). That way I can
> keep as up-to-date as a I need to and not rely on the fink package
> system (or be subject to Apple's bizarre approach to BSD/Darwin
> updatery). Fink (and macports) will install a huge secondary system that
> you really don't need.

OK.

> On the other hand, Pan will be a problem, since it's a Gnome app and
> needs Glib and gtk and pango and stuff which is pretty much broken
> out-of-the-Mac-box, and difficult to set up. I keep Arch Linux (with
> Gnome) in Virtual Box for that kind of thing. Works a treat; your iMac
> will run it very quickly.

Hmmmm... the old dependency issue... OK.  I certainly could run a Linux 
distro in a VM, but if going that route I might as well just do it on a 
Linux box, since I am certainly not abandoning Linux to go Mac-only...  I 
am quite familiar with VB already, so may do it anyway just for fun.  Was 
hoping to run Pan "natively" on the Mac, and may still try to do that.
 
> You'll need to re-write your $PATH (and $MANPATH too if you like) to
> deal with /usr/local.

Gotcha.

> What Linux were/are you using?

Slackware.  (is there anything else?)  ;)


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Fink Dan C <youmustbejoking@lan.invalid> - 2011-04-14 00:21 +0000
  Re: Fink Chris Schram <chrispam1@frontier.com> - 2011-04-13 20:59 -0700
    Re: Fink Dan C <youmustbejoking@lan.invalid> - 2011-04-14 13:12 +0000
  Re: Fink Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com> - 2011-04-14 10:52 +0000
    Re: Fink Dan C <youmustbejoking@lan.invalid> - 2011-04-14 13:13 +0000
  Re: Fink Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2011-04-14 12:25 +0100
    Re: Fink Dan C <youmustbejoking@lan.invalid> - 2011-04-14 13:13 +0000
  Re: Fink Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> - 2011-04-14 07:44 -0400
    Re: Fink Dan C <youmustbejoking@lan.invalid> - 2011-04-14 13:12 +0000
      Re: Fink Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> - 2011-04-14 11:38 -0400
        Re: Fink Dan C <youmustbejoking@lan.invalid> - 2011-04-14 21:07 +0000
      Re: Fink Paul Sture <paul.nospam@sture.ch> - 2011-04-14 22:39 +0200
        Re: Fink Dan C <youmustbejoking@lan.invalid> - 2011-04-15 00:30 +0000
          Re: Fink Paul Sture <paul.nospam@sture.ch> - 2011-04-15 09:48 +0200
        Re: Fink Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox@newsguy.com> - 2011-04-15 14:41 +0000
  Re: Fink Tom Harrington <tph@pcisys.no.spam.dammit.net> - 2011-04-14 10:24 -0600
    Re: Fink Dan C <youmustbejoking@lan.invalid> - 2011-04-14 21:08 +0000
  Re: Fink "giuseppe.on.usenet" <giuseppe.on.usenet@gmail.com> - 2011-04-17 06:19 -0700
    Re: Fink Dan C <youmustbejoking@lan.invalid> - 2011-04-17 14:52 +0000

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