Updating preinstalled UNIX tools

Dear all,
I am using UNIX tools such as svn on several machines including Solaris servers and when installing from the source on the server I realized that the version of svn shipped with Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.6 is quite outdated.
I used fink to compile an up to date version and set a symbolic link in /usr/bin to the new svn executable.
It works fine. How I saw that also the sqlite3 client is kind of old and I also would like to update this. I could take the same route, but I do not feel good about changing stuff in system folders like /usr/bin. I have the bad feeling that it could hit me later when updating the OS or so.
Is there an alternative, clean and recommended way to update command line tools shipped with the OS?
Thanks
Thomas

bash is still bash, and PATH is still PATH
The changes Apple has made relate more to traditional admin stuff, not the basic interactive terminal environment.
And of course every Unix implementation by a different vendor has different admin stuff (which is why POSIX and X/Open have not created a standard for it), each implementation has its own driver implementations, they all seem to have their own special file system implementations, etc... But the shells are generally cross platform, and while some variation on which options are supported, most core Unix commands are available across all platforms (bash, ksh, zsh, sh, csh, tcsh, being a part of that group).
While I'm sure you will run into some hiccups from what you know about a previous Unix experience, you will also find that for the most part the Unix side of Mac OS X is extremely familar (especially if you come from a BSD Unix background).
The best source for additional already ported Mac OS X Open Source packages is fink.sf.net (which you already know about), and MacPorts.org (which I favor these days).
And as has been pointed out, DO NOT mess with Mac OS X installed versions, you could break a Mac maintenence script, a Mac update, or some other Open Source package ported to Mac OS X that depended on the Mac OS X installed standard tool, which you changed. Rather just mess with your own account's PATH.

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