On 2009-10-15, Wendy Bossons <[email protected]> wrote: > > Can someone explain the purpose of Macports and why I might need it? >
Broadly, because it's an easy-to-use library of useful free software. It provides, especially, dependency tracking, which means that when you install a package you want, you get the packages that that that package depends on automatically, without fuss. The value of the tool depends, of course, on what you are doing, but Macports has helped me greatly in my software development work. -- Randolph Fritz design machine group, architecture department, university of washington [email protected] -or- [email protected] _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
