Re: port diagnose and xcode

2022-03-23 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Mar 23, 2022, at 08:48, Michele Venturi wrote: > If MacPorts is not a package manager we need one, > I'd say HomeBrew could be the right tool for the job. I'm not sure what these remarks are in regards to, but MacPorts was started in 2002 a ports collection [1] based conceptually on FreeBSD

Re: port diagnose and xcode

2022-03-23 Thread chilli.names...@gmail.com
MacPorts is, by a long margin, the best package manager for macOS and Mac OS X before it. Homebrew is more like a cult than a package manager, and it has always been redundant and inferior to MacPorts. It is inferior due to the way it botches permissions, and specifically the way it creates

Re: port diagnose and xcode

2022-03-23 Thread Michele Venturi
My problem is that "MacPorts is not (just) 'a simple package manager'. " Il mer 23 mar 2022, 21:11 Dave Horsfall ha scritto: > On Wed, 23 Mar 2022, Michele Venturi wrote: > > > If MacPorts is not a package manager we need one,I'd say HomeBrew could > > be the right tool for the job. > > I find

Re: port diagnose and xcode

2022-03-23 Thread Dave Horsfall
On Wed, 23 Mar 2022, Michele Venturi wrote: > If MacPorts is not a package manager we need one,I'd say HomeBrew could > be the right tool for the job. I find that MacPorts is a most excellent package manager; what exactly is your problem? -- Dave

Re: port diagnose and xcode

2022-03-23 Thread Michele Venturi
If MacPorts is not a package manager we need one, I'd say HomeBrew could be the right tool for the job. Il lun 14 mar 2022, 18:02 Ryan Schmidt ha scritto: > On Mar 14, 2022, at 10:40, James Secan wrote: > > > It is a macOS alias. I use soft links a lot, but only for items that > I’m accessing