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With apt-get.

• wmf 17y ago
  If you have one repository you've just created a monopoly. If you have multiple repositories (probably one per app) then you've just shifted the problem to installing new repositories.
  • andrewtj 17y ago
    Zero Install attempts to resolve that issue amongst others: http://0install.net/ http://0install.net/
  • bkudria 17y ago
    What's wrong with a monopoly? The common iPhone user has no problems with the App Store...
  • catch23 17y ago
    What's wrong with multiple repositories? It should be easy to add new ones. There's multiple places to get debian packages, there's the main packages, non-free, backports, and other homebrew ones like mythtv etc. It's as easy as adding a line into a text file, but I'm sure the interface could be better... maybe even something integrated with the browser. Maybe github & sourceforge has a mac repository. So you'd have the default one from apple, plus any open source apps from github & sourceforge. Individual developers who just publish code on github wouldn't need to setup their own repository. In a way, it's kind of how the ruby community distributes their packages.
    • blasdel 17y ago
      Freetard wankery is the only reason there is more than one place to get debian packages. Fuck debian-legal. I hope their heads fall off.
• yason 17y ago
  Lack of package management was one of the reasons I dumped OS X.
  • robin_reala 17y ago
    There’s a couple of good package management systems for OSX, if you’re looking for servers/frameworks and command-line apps. Seeing as servers & frameworks tend to be more complicated to install that dragging an app to the Applications folder this suits me. I use http://www.macports.org/ http://www.macports.org/