[Cialug] I've got the MAC bug...

Tom Pohl cialug@cialug.org
Fri, 4 Feb 2005 19:19:19 -0600


OK .. for fun, I'll thrown down:

ports is kkrrraaappp!

:D j/k I sometimes use it but find fink to be more friendly.

-Tom

On Feb 4, 2005, at 4:15 PM, Bryan Baker wrote:

> Infidel! ports is the only one true provider of all things *nix ;-)
> Seriously, Fink is cool and very popular, but I like the way ports 
> does it better.
> I don't like the fake debian filetree fink creates, guess I just 
> prefer the /opt structure ports uses.
> I also suspect, that if this function is ever taken over by the OS, 
> it'll end up being ports (there was a rumor that is was supposed to be 
> part of the default panther install) since Jordan Hubbard is part of 
> the team doing Ports (he's one of the BSD luminaries Apple hired back 
> in about 2002).
>
> http://darwinports.opendarwin.org/
>
> On Feb 4, 2005, at 3:34 PM, Chris Van Cleve wrote:
>> And is very doable using the FINK tool.
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