ANONYMOUS "Dist-upgrade Packages" looks through your downloaded packages and makes sure they are all up to date, and if not, updates them. "Selfupdate-rsync" does just that - it updates the fink tool. The binary packages are precompiled for your system but can sometimes lead to issues because your own computer didn't compile it itself. The advantage here is with binaries though, because they take almost no time at all compared to the uncompiled versions to install. The "Positive" and "Negative" are a *gasp* rating system! You said: "The readme file provides nothing useful about how to use the application." All of the questions you posted here are core elements of the Fink Project, not Fink Commander. It's not Fink Commander's job to make the Fink tool easier to figure out, it's only here to help us USE it. It's a lot nicer to select something in a menubar, especially for someone like yourself that has probably never opened the terminal before. You might try actually looking up some information about Fink, and see if it actually does anything for you. Otherwise, this might be a little be beyond you. "And the app icon is jagged and grainy compared to other Mac OS X icons, and I don't understand why it has an X Windows logo on it, seeing as how the application doesn't run under X Windows!" *sigh* You're just full of compliments today, aren't you? Although I am also a big proponent of interface contiguity, sometimes the application itself does turn out to be more important than the icon. Fink initially did run in X-Free86. Thanks for your keen insight.
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