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

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On 2015-09-26, Ant <ANTant@zimage.com> wrote:
> What I am looking for is what the best package manager in Mac OS X that 
> is quick to download and use, not messy and taking up disk spaces 
> especially on SSDs, easy to upgrade when things change, lots of stable 
> packages (e.g., Debian's stable and oldstable but still allows me to 
> switch to unstable and experiments if needed), etc. I am not a 
> developer. I am mostly an old impatient user with very little time these 
> days. I just want that Apple's "it just works".

To be rude, hack the package manager and read up on DWIM :-)
Or ask someone to.

>
> Currently, I'm thinking of going to MacPorts. Thank you in advance. :)

This is software that was made to better MacOS X in approximately 10.2, it
should be fine if you are a debian user.

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