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SllX on April 30, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Thoughts on macOS Package Managers

It’s a Macintosh tool for Unix users. Or a Unix tool for Macintosh users, can never decide. At least that is how I’ve always explained the weirdness to myself.

asveikau on April 30, 2019 [–]

Sure, but macports always seemed more unixy.

Then there's fink mentioned in the article which was popular long ago which literally was a port of Debian stuff.

At some point I was using pkgsrc from NetBSD.

So a more Unix person's type of tool exists.

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