Gentoo prefix can run on a wide variety of operating systems and distributions. It needs a few updates to work around the recent changes in macos permissioning,

Gentoo prefix can run on a wide variety of operating systems and distributions. It needs a few updates to work around the recent changes in macos permissioning, but if it can find a familiar shell it will more or less work as expected. I think part of the above comment is expressing frustration about the fact that part of the reason for the lack of wide portability of these programs is precisely because people say "oh they can't do x" or "this is operating system specific" and taking it as axiomatic rather than realizing that with a bit of engineering time and effort they can be extended to work on other systems. This especially since there is pretty much no language that is used entirely by itself without dependencies on another at some point in time. If your language has a ffi, then you need a real package manager to accompany it. [0] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Prefix https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Prefix