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Care to substantiate that last paragraph? Are you really suggesting OS X users use yum?
by jahewson 11y ago
Care to substantiate that last paragraph? Are you really suggesting OS X users use yum?
- yegle 11y agoWhy not? dpkg is already been used by jailbroken devices in Cydia.
- pjc50 11y agoNot literally yum, but something with a similar design rather than abusing a git repo.
- umanwizard 11y agoIt's absolutely possible to install yum on OS X (I know this from experience)
- wyldfire 11y agoActually it seems very likely that one or more of the popular linux distro package manager ecosystems would fare well on other OSs. Arch Linux's pacman was ported to Windows, e.g..
- 286c8cb04bda 11y agopacman has been ported to OS X a few times https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=53960 https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=122544
- rodgerd 11y agoWhy not? A friend of mine was employed by a Very Large Company at one point to (amongst other things) maintain their AIX port of rpm/yum.