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I tried both and, coming from FreeBSD, I was not impressed. I decided to build everything myself and this has so-far been the best solution for me.
by pistoriusp 18y ago
I tried both and, coming from FreeBSD, I was not impressed. I decided to build everything myself and this has so-far been the best solution for me.
- andreyf 18y agoI tried both, coming from Windows, and both seem to work fine. What's better about FreeBSD's Ports?
- epi0Bauqu 18y agomake install clean (in a ports dir) usually just works. It fetches dependencies, deals with dependence versioning correctly, applies already tested FreeBSD patches, etc. Add to that csvsup and portupgrade, which help you upgrade everything correctly in essentially one full swoop, and the whole system is hard to match.
- neilc 18y agoThat's been my general impression with the Unix half of OSX: it is Unix, it's just ... mediocre. Everything is just more of a pain in the ass than it would be with FreeBSD or Linux.
- tlb 18y agoI'm working on a big piece of software with numerical, real-time, and GTK components. It needs 230 packages installed using MacPorts. I have a 20-line script, mostly "port install XXX" which takes care of it all with no worries. And it's really nice that I can just rm -r /opt and do it again if I mess it up.