Barry Smith <[email protected]> writes: > Actually it is very simple and clean (though a little sparse), the > problems come from when people use macports, home-brew and all those > other “let’s make package systems like Linux has, for Apple” but > lets make them a little less than perfect.
Either everyone that has attempted to automate software installation, upgrades, and dependencies for Mac systems is an idiot or Apple has made an ecosystem that is hostile to the automation of such things. Doing these things manually is a monumental waste of time. Sometime in the 90s, I took it for granted that compilers, debuggers, Octave, and the like Just Worked, would always be up-to-date with normalized dependencies so that any combination could be linked and so that binary security patches were trivial. Valgrind came soon after and I never looked back. To think that we're even talking about this in 2014 is depressing.
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