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It seems strange to read how many positive things I had to say about the Fink project when I contrast it with my current opinion.
I’m still working on repairing my broken installation. Compiles take a long time on a 350 MHz machine, so progress is slow. I suppose I could save time and download the .deb files.
It would, of course, save a lot of time if anyone on the fink team knew how the package management software actually worked. And maybe someone does and they just weren’t checking mail this weekend. My fault for expecting anything on a weekend.
I would have been quite happy if someone — anyone — had said they didn’t know but they knew who might, or asked for information that was in some way relevant. But trotting out the same old gripes about where perl libraries get installed (answer: where perl can find them) is useless and annoying. Incidentally, I removed Storable.pm from the fink installation — retaining it in perl’s @INC path — and nothing broke. Fancy that.
Discovering that the manual page contradicts reality makes me wonder if anyone actually does a baseline install/regression test of new releases as they come out. I know the answer to that already.
At some point, my anger will subside but for now it seems to be simmering nicely.