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 02:37 +0000
Organization	People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates
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On 2015-09-26, Ant <ANTant@zimage.com> wrote:
> Hello.
>
> Back during Mac OS X v10.2.x(x=8 as the final version) days on my 15" 1 
> Ghz PowerBook G4, I used to use Fink with its X11 with it. I loved it. 
> Today, I am thinking to trying them/one(1) out on borrowed MacBooks from 
> 2008 (v10.5.8), mid-2012 (v10.8.5), and early 2013 (Retina; v10.10.5).
>
> I use Linux a lot like Debian on my desktop machines. After searching 
> and reading online, I found out that Fink is the oldest and has the most 
> packages, but it compiles like I remember. That took forever. I kind of 
> want to avoid this and have quick download, installs, etc. However, I 
> read that MacPorts and HomeBrew can have dependenices with Mac OS X's 
> libraries that can change easily by Apple to break them which is never 
> fun. :(
>
> 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".
>
> Currently, I'm thinking of going to MacPorts. Thank you in advance. :)

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).

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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... 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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