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[Jan Stary]

On Sep 05 16:48:44, allbery.b at gmail.com wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 4:43 PM, Alejandro Imass <aimass at yabarana.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 4:36 PM, Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> wrote:
> >
> >> On Fri, 5 Sep 2014, Alejandro Imass wrote:
> >> > Yeah MacPorts is the most awesome piece of software you will ever have
> >> > on your Mac. It's very easy, friendly and robust.
> >>
> >> I've used FreeBSD's port system for ages, and yeah, the Mac beats it hands
> >> down.
> >
> >
> > Well, it is very good but I feel the FBSD's is just as good. And AFAIK the
> > former is based/inspired on the latter, or am I mistaken?
> >
> 
> MacPorts is based on the *BSD pkgsrc/ports system, but greatly improved; it
> took years for BSD ports to come up with a reasonable way to handle
> upgrading ports, and `port upgrade outdated` still handles cases that
> `portupgrade` and `portmaster -a` don't (checking for manual upgrade
> actions in /usr/ports/UPDATING is still essential). I'm just getting back
> into the FreeBSD world and ports still feels rather primitive after
> MacPorts.

Have a look at OpenBSD's pkg_add(1).