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Gentoo's Portage to be Ported to Mac OS X

Posted by pudge on from the more-options-more-better dept.

billatq writes "I love Mac OS X, but I'm also a fan of running Gentoo Linux because of its powerful package management system. A Debian-style system (fink) is already on Mac OS X, but now it seems that Gentoo's Portage is going to be available for it. Gentoo's announcement can be found on their web site. I can't wait until we see what the Gentoo team has prepared."

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  1. NetBSD pkgsrc by LizardKing · · Score: 5, Informative

    NetBSD's pkgsrc collection can be used on MacOS X from what I understand. It's a "compile from source" system much like Gentoos, and has about 3700 packages available.

    Chris

  2. Re:hmm by zojas · · Score: 5, Informative
    one clarification: portage asks you no questions. configure-time options are set via USE flags in your make.conf file. see the portage user guide and the USE flag guide.

    no questions means you can type 'emerge kde' and come back later after it has installed possibly dozens of packages with no more input from you.