On Thu, Jan 01, 2009 at 10:27:27AM -0600, Peter da Silva wrote: > I believe that MacPorts uses debian packages as an intermediate step, so > it incorporates the best hate from both sides of the aisle (yes, all > software is hateful, Ports is software, therefore it's hateful, some of > us just find it less hateful than the alternative of building the whole > system from lego blocks). > > Or is that Fink? The fact that there's two competing ports-based systems > for OS X is a third layer of hate.
Yeah, I think that's fink. I don't know what MacPorts is based on. > Especially when the native OS X packaging scheme (bundles and > frameworks) has advantages over both, but neither of them use it. Yeah. Among the hateful things about MacPorts is that it insists on installing its own versions of things. So, for example if you want to install a package that uses some Perl modules (git, for instance) it needs to install its own version of Perl first. I've had one of them (I forget if it was fink or macports) actually install its own gcc.
