Re: Fink, MacPorts, HomeBrew, oh my...

From	Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.apps, comp.sys.mac.misc, comp.sys.mac.system, comp.sys.mac.systems
Subject	Re: Fink, MacPorts, HomeBrew, oh my...
Date	2015-09-26 16:19 +0000
Organization	People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates
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On 2015-09-26, Ant <ANTant@zimage.com> wrote:
>> > Personally, I avoid package managers and just install from source. I
>> > dislike the overhead of a package manager, and most open source software
>> > I want to run is relatively easily compiled in OS X (usually just a
>> > simple: ./configure, make, sudo make install).
>
> Exactly. I don't have the time, patience, and knowledge to do those 
> since I work, take care of family and clients, etc. I just want "it 
> just works" like Apple used to say. Hence why I use old stuff because 
> they just work fine. :P

That's fine. I wasn't suggesting that you do what I do - just stating my
preference.

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Fink, MacPorts, HomeBrew, oh my... ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2015-09-25 20:00 -0500
  Re: Fink, MacPorts, HomeBrew, oh my... Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2015-09-25 18:16 -0700
    Re: Fink, MacPorts, HomeBrew, oh my... ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2015-09-25 21:08 -0500
      Re: Fink, MacPorts, HomeBrew, oh my... David Ritz <dritz@mindspring.com> - 2015-09-26 00:37 -0500
        Re: Fink, MacPorts, HomeBrew, oh my... ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2015-09-26 01:05 -0500
        Re: Fink, MacPorts, HomeBrew, oh my... Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2015-09-25 23:48 -0700
      Re: Fink, MacPorts, HomeBrew, oh my... Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2015-09-27 19:11 +0200
        Re: Fink, MacPorts, HomeBrew, oh my... ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2015-09-27 19:32 -0500
    Re: Fink, MacPorts, HomeBrew, oh my... Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2015-09-27 19:10 +0200
      Re: Fink, MacPorts, HomeBrew, oh my... Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2015-09-27 11:02 -0700
  Re: Fink, MacPorts, HomeBrew, oh my... Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-09-26 02:37 +0000
    Re: Fink, MacPorts, HomeBrew, oh my... Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2015-09-25 23:57 -0700
      Re: Fink, MacPorts, HomeBrew, oh my... ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2015-09-26 05:54 -0500
        Re: Fink, MacPorts, HomeBrew, oh my... Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-09-26 16:19 +0000
          Re: Fink, MacPorts, HomeBrew, oh my... ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2015-09-27 19:31 -0500
      Re: Fink, MacPorts, HomeBrew, oh my... Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-09-26 16:19 +0000
        Re: Fink, MacPorts, HomeBrew, oh my... Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-09-27 15:53 +0000
          Re: Fink, MacPorts, HomeBrew, oh my... Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-09-27 16:30 +0000
            Re: Fink, MacPorts, HomeBrew, oh my... Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-09-27 19:44 +0000
  Re: Fink, MacPorts, HomeBrew, oh my... Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> - 2015-09-26 07:53 -0400
  Re: Fink, MacPorts, HomeBrew, oh my... John D <duncanjdiii@gmail.com> - 2015-09-27 17:06 -0400
    Re: Fink, MacPorts, HomeBrew, oh my... John D <duncanjdiii@gmail.com> - 2015-09-27 17:15 -0400
      Re: Fink, MacPorts, HomeBrew, oh my... Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-09-27 21:31 +0000
    Re: Fink, MacPorts, HomeBrew, oh my... Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-09-27 22:45 +0000
    Re: Fink, MacPorts, HomeBrew, oh my... Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-09-28 07:46 +0000

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