<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 4:43 PM, Alejandro Imass <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:aimass@yabarana.com" target="_blank">aimass@yabarana.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="">On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 4:36 PM, Dave Horsfall <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dave@horsfall.org" target="_blank">dave@horsfall.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span>On Fri, 5 Sep 2014, Alejandro Imass wrote:<br>
> Yeah MacPorts is the most awesome piece of software you will ever have<br>
> on your Mac. It's very easy, friendly and robust.<br>
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</span>I've used FreeBSD's port system for ages, and yeah, the Mac beats it hands<br>
down. </blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>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?</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>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improved; it took years for BSD ports to come up with a reasonable way to handle upgrading ports, and `port upgrade outdated` still handles cases that `portupgrade` and `portmaster -a` don't (checking for manual upgrade actions in /usr/ports/UPDATING is still essential).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.</div></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div>brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates</div><div><a href="mailto:allbery.b@gmail.com" target="_blank">allbery.b@gmail.com</a> <a href="mailto:ballbery@sinenomine.net" target="_blank">ballbery@sinenomine.net</a></div><div>unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad <a href="http://sinenomine.net" target="_blank">http://sinenomine.net</a></div></div>
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