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I hear pkgsrc[1] is pretty decent for osx as well. I keep wanting to try it out, but haven't yet. [1]: https://pkgsrc.joyent.com/install-on-osx/ https://pkgsrc

• hkjgkjy 10y ago
  Browsed the website for a while, but couldn't find out why anyone would use Pkgsrc over any other package manager. If you know I'd love to hear!
  • justincormack 10y ago
    The big thing it has is the same packages and experience on any OS, you can install on Linux and the BSDs and it is just the same. Other than that it has pretty much everything you would expect, and lots of packages.
• aorth 10y ago
  I've been trying to like pkgsrc on Mac OS X for a few years now. The one you link to provides binaries, and is sponsored by Joyent. The main deal breaker for me there is that they only update their packages every quarter (currently 2016Q2), so you have to wait if you want bug fixes, security updates, etc. I just had a look again and found that ffmpeg is one minor version behind behind stable, its binary is annoyingly called "ffmpeg3", and it was compiled somewhere with LLVM 6 / clang 600, versus LLVM 8 / clang 800 on my macOS 10.12 system. I tried to compile it manually (after a shallow clone of their massive, 250,000+ commit git repo), but failed. For me Homebrew does the right thing here — they basically turn my Mac into a rolling release Linux desktop like Arch Linux, which is great for the userland type packages I use: openssh, zsh, tmux, postgresql, ffmpeg, git, vim, rsync, etc.
  • jperkin 10y ago
    I switched from building from quarterly branches to trunk a while ago, so those packages are actually updated with the very latest every few days.