Uhh Darwin ports... it basically gives you apt-get for mac. I am not a fan of macs but I am pretty sure it has been around for a while: http://darwinports.com/ Obviously it doesn't do OS stuff, and non-oss stuff, but it is there, I guess it can't really compare to apt-get but I am speaking from the point of view of a Linux/Windows user who has only ever supported Mac's as I am the one that knows bash...
On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Jeff Waugh <[email protected]> wrote: > <quote who="Lindsay Holmwood"> > > > That said, their update tool is totally broken. Case in point: you do a > > clean install of OS X, the software updater runs silently in the > > background and starts downloading the latest updates, you run the > software > > update frontend manually, and it discards any partially completed silent > > downloads so far (this could be up to 1gb of updates). > > > > For all its faults, Linux distros still kick the crap out any other OS > > when it comes to distributing and applying updates. > > Funny story: I was talking to an Apple dude at OSCON a few years ago about > how *nix-y Mac OS X was compared to Linux, doing evil surgery underneath OS > X, stuff like that. At one point we got onto packaging, and he started > asking some incredibly detailed questions about how dpkg/apt worked, how > they manage consistency and modes of failure, etc. > > It turns out that while a big chunk of the Linux world was trying to figure > out how to bring "appfolders" to Linux, Apple has been trying to figure out > how to bring sane packaging to OS X. > > The grass is always greener. :-) > > (How much greener? Each one of those OS X updates you download is a cpio > archive which is unpacked straight onto the disk.) > > Mac OS X... the honey-coated monkey dung of operating systems. > > - Jeff > > -- > linux.conf.au 2010: Wellington, NZ > http://www.penguinsvisiting.org.nz/ > > Self-assertive pants are filled with confidence. > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
