This article is rated Start-class on Wikipedia's
content assessment scale. It is of interest to the following WikiProjects: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
I'm not sure but does this stuff, added by two anon IP users, belong here or does it count as dictionary definitions? AlistairMcMillan 04:41, 2 May 2005 (UTC)
References
Fink is iin the Macintosh computers category, which makes no sense. I dont know how, but put it in the software for mac not made by apple category.
I feel the reason why the founder quit is not describes as it should in an encyclopedia: He left the project in November 2001 "after learning about the unthankfulness of people the hard way." Perhaps this should be rephrased. -- Philippe 16:54, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
Initiated from the mailing list, I had a look at the page while thinking about improvements. Here my first impressions: Regarding the aim to attract users to fink as well as guide users, this is clearly not served with prime importance. There are two many details, that do not matter for a beginner and rather distract, whereas relevant topics are missing for beginners. The balance on the page with all of the sad history does not make you want to become involved or trust to use fink. I would put forward some FAQs of starting users. For example, it only states that fink does is not compliant with the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard. No explanation for this, nothing. It sounds like it is dangerous to install it. More on it later and maybe with improvements - mischi. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 141.48.167.194 ( talk) 13:48, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
This article is currently being reviewed and rewritten by Fink, see https://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=261fc33d0803191701m1e497b2m4d443bf7c1d654e8%40mail.gmail.com&forum_name=fink-devel for reference I removed this note from the article and am reproducing it here. -- ascorbic ( talk) 16:16, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
I removed two claims from the article. First: "[the /sw prefix] can be changed when fink is first installed." Not true; I just installed Fink now to check, and while it lets me select what drive to install on, it automatically installs into '/sw' without any chance to change it. Question 5.4 of the Fink FAQ says that Fink must remain in '/sw' or it will stop working. Second: "This prevents fink from accidentally overwriting (or being overwritten by) files from OS X itself or from other vendors." A directory named '/sw' is not any more or less 'safe' than a directory named, for example, '/usr/local/fink', and trying to find a nonstandard place to hide your installation to "protect" it should not be a consideration in software development. - Brian Kendig ( talk) 02:13, 23 January 2009 (UTC)
When trying to download FInk I find numerous broken links. I can not find any package to install Fink except for OSX 10.5 with the ability to upgrade from there. But this version does not install on later releases of OSX. It appears to me that Fink is nolonger an ongoing project, though I'd love to be proved wrong. FreeFlow99 ( talk) 18:10, 2 September 2013 (UTC)
There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:Fink (disambiguation) which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you. — RMCD bot 01:15, 9 December 2018 (UTC)
This article is rated Start-class on Wikipedia's
content assessment scale. It is of interest to the following WikiProjects: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
I'm not sure but does this stuff, added by two anon IP users, belong here or does it count as dictionary definitions? AlistairMcMillan 04:41, 2 May 2005 (UTC)
References
Fink is iin the Macintosh computers category, which makes no sense. I dont know how, but put it in the software for mac not made by apple category.
I feel the reason why the founder quit is not describes as it should in an encyclopedia: He left the project in November 2001 "after learning about the unthankfulness of people the hard way." Perhaps this should be rephrased. -- Philippe 16:54, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
Initiated from the mailing list, I had a look at the page while thinking about improvements. Here my first impressions: Regarding the aim to attract users to fink as well as guide users, this is clearly not served with prime importance. There are two many details, that do not matter for a beginner and rather distract, whereas relevant topics are missing for beginners. The balance on the page with all of the sad history does not make you want to become involved or trust to use fink. I would put forward some FAQs of starting users. For example, it only states that fink does is not compliant with the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard. No explanation for this, nothing. It sounds like it is dangerous to install it. More on it later and maybe with improvements - mischi. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 141.48.167.194 ( talk) 13:48, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
This article is currently being reviewed and rewritten by Fink, see https://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=261fc33d0803191701m1e497b2m4d443bf7c1d654e8%40mail.gmail.com&forum_name=fink-devel for reference I removed this note from the article and am reproducing it here. -- ascorbic ( talk) 16:16, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
I removed two claims from the article. First: "[the /sw prefix] can be changed when fink is first installed." Not true; I just installed Fink now to check, and while it lets me select what drive to install on, it automatically installs into '/sw' without any chance to change it. Question 5.4 of the Fink FAQ says that Fink must remain in '/sw' or it will stop working. Second: "This prevents fink from accidentally overwriting (or being overwritten by) files from OS X itself or from other vendors." A directory named '/sw' is not any more or less 'safe' than a directory named, for example, '/usr/local/fink', and trying to find a nonstandard place to hide your installation to "protect" it should not be a consideration in software development. - Brian Kendig ( talk) 02:13, 23 January 2009 (UTC)
When trying to download FInk I find numerous broken links. I can not find any package to install Fink except for OSX 10.5 with the ability to upgrade from there. But this version does not install on later releases of OSX. It appears to me that Fink is nolonger an ongoing project, though I'd love to be proved wrong. FreeFlow99 ( talk) 18:10, 2 September 2013 (UTC)
There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:Fink (disambiguation) which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you. — RMCD bot 01:15, 9 December 2018 (UTC)