Shreevatsa R wrote:
I thought the whole point of doing Ports for Mac was to provide
choice...
IMO, the point was to provide "package mananagement", making it
easy to
install, upgrade, and not have to chase down dependencies, especially
for packages without a graphical binary installer.
Well, if MacPorts had used a package manager that could have been
it. :-)
Sure it provides "software management" (or "port management") for you...
But when building packages, the actual handling of those is
outsourced to
whatever package manager chosen - whether Installer.app or rpm or dpkg.
If and when the project starts a binary distribution, we can resume the
package management discussion. Hopefully it doesn't mean just "xpkg"...
--anders
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