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Pkgsrc-2014Q2: 11,000+ binary packages for SmartOS, illumos, Mac OS X, and Linux(mail-index.netbsd.org)
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by jperkin 12y ago
I work on pkgsrc which is another alternative. Its main advantages are: * A large number of pre-built binary packages with an apt-get style command (pkgin) to install them. Over 10,000 packages are available for OSX in the most recent rel
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by jperkin 13y ago
Huh, yes, they appear to have coincidentally fixed it since I wrote that comment. Maybe I need to start reporting all GitHub bugs as Hacker News comments...
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by jperkin 13y ago
Their language detection is indeed terrible. I have a repository ( https://github.com/jperkin/pilights ) which is entirely composed of shell scripts and a single markdown README. GitHub's analysis? Perl 83.5%
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10,000 binary packages for OS X(pkgsrc.org)
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A node.js-powered 8-bit CPU(perkin.org.uk)
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by jperkin 13y ago
I already have a blog post on that ;) http://www.perkin.org.uk/posts/creating-local-smartos-packag... You'll just need to tweak paths from /opt/local (SmartOS) to /usr/pkg (OSX). The one caveat is that multiple repository support in pkgin
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by jperkin 13y ago
Hi Chris! So yeh, it's not quite as simple as Homebrew, which is definitely optimised for that use-case, but it's still relatively straight-forward. Taking the 'tmux' package as an example: https://github.com/jsonn/pkgsrc/tree/trunk/misc/t
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by jperkin 13y ago
Hi! Briefly, pkgsrc is quite similar to both, in that it allows you to build software easily from source. This repository is a bulk build of all available packages in pkgsrc, so it gives you the option to install from binary packages instea
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9000 up-to-date binary packages for OS X(perkin.org.uk)
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7,000 binary packages for OSX Lion(perkin.org.uk)
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Tweaking the SmartOS global zone(perkin.org.uk)
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