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Fink vs DarwinPorts?
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I work on both so lemme try:
Fink has more packages and much more widely used.
darwinports has fewer packages and is on a slower development pace BUT Darwinport can draw code directly from the CVS sources so they tend more more cutting edge (like KDE).
I would go with fink simply because of the mass of packages. I'm not knocking DP (I'm on a DP developer),
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Originally posted by MacGorilla:
Fink has more packages and much more widely used.
... And it also has a lot of pre-compiled, binary packages (through apt-get): so it's definitely the way to go for beginners - at least until DarwinPorts is on the same, "easy-to-use" level, for example when the Ports Manager GUI tool will have powerful functionality, similarly to FinkCommander.
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Man, I couldn't, for the life of me, figure out what the heck to do with Darwin Ports. If I remember correctly, they have a WebDAV server that is freely accessible to us for copying files off of. All I found were thousands of source files... not really in any compilable form...
Anyone? 
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I must say that I am much more impressed over DarwinPorts. At my home computer I run Fink, and I've always been using Fink. Then I was to install some packages and stuff on one of my servers, Fink to the rescue, not. I even delete everything of X11 and Fink and tried to reinstall, nothing. That was 10.2.8 btw. When I was to install KDE on my homecomputer running 10.3.2 I had to install some packages from binary because Fink didn't mange to compile them. On the server I now run DP, and the only thing I miss is some better documentation.
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