On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 4:43 PM, Alejandro Imass <aim...@yabarana.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 4:36 PM, Dave Horsfall <d...@horsfall.org> wrote: > >> On Fri, 5 Sep 2014, Alejandro Imass wrote: >> > Yeah MacPorts is the most awesome piece of software you will ever have >> > on your Mac. It's very easy, friendly and robust. >> >> I've used FreeBSD's port system for ages, and yeah, the Mac beats it hands >> down. > > > Well, it is very good but I feel the FBSD's is just as good. And AFAIK the > former is based/inspired on the latter, or am I mistaken? > MacPorts is based on the *BSD pkgsrc/ports system, but greatly improved; it took years for BSD ports to come up with a reasonable way to handle upgrading ports, and `port upgrade outdated` still handles cases that `portupgrade` and `portmaster -a` don't (checking for manual upgrade actions in /usr/ports/UPDATING is still essential). I'm just getting back into the FreeBSD world and ports still feels rather primitive after MacPorts. -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allber...@gmail.com ballb...@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net
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