Gentoo currently has 1240 orphaned packages and there only exists a very small group of active proxy maintainers.
So I would not use Gentoo as any alternative...which pains me to say because I used to love Gentoo. On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 8:22 AM, Alejandro Imass <aim...@yabarana.com> wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 1:59 PM, René J.V. <rjvber...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Morning! >> >> OK now, don't get me wrong, this is not an announcement that I'll be >> forking off MacPorts to begin a fully supported Linux variant! :) >> > > Also, why no use Gentoo or other existing ports-based Linux variants ? > > To me anything that uses "ports" is kind-of BSD by definition (or BSD > wannabe) so why not use the real thing to begin with! Being able to install > from binary and/or from fine-tuned source compile is priceless in my book. > Which of course can be done with most Linux variants (and pretty elegantly > if done correctly) it is never as elegant as a true ports system. > > Anyway, just my 0.02 here. I am no expert in software distribution systems > by any means, but IMHO OS X and BSD seem a much better coupling than OS X > and Linux. Also, PCSBD is pretty cool: > http://blog.pcbsd.org/2015/05/pc-bsd-10-1-2-an-interview-with-kris-moore/ > > Best, > Alejandro Imass > > > _______________________________________________ > macports-users mailing list > macports-users@lists.macosforge.org > https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users > >
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