Homebrew has pretty much solved that problem for me, and iTerm 2 is pretty spiffy. I'm not super hardcore about shells or whatever though so I probably don't g

Homebrew has pretty much solved that problem for me, and iTerm 2 is pretty spiffy. I'm not super hardcore about shells or whatever though so I probably don't get exposed to many of those issues. I do get the feeling that Apple is trying to take the approach of the Ubuntu LTS series and be fairly conservative on what they're including in the OS.