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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. Maybe I'm going out on a limb here, by Asprin · · Score: 4, Insightful


    I can't wait until we see what the Gentoo team has prepared."

    Maybe I'm going out on a limb here, but shouldn't it be just like portage on Gentoo? Macs *DO* have CLI's now, right?

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  2. huh? by claude_juan · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ok, maybe i'm being silly but the "beauty" of portage is that you compile it from source. it seems to me that with the limited number of varying mac processors out there that it would be a much better deal if the mac portage would just install a binary that was precompiled for your particular processor. for you apple folk who dont know this, it can take hours upon hours to compile certain packages from source. now this is usually only larger things like kde and gnome, but there are a number of larger ones as well that suck to compile. but to date, thats what portage sells to people. "compile it from source!" "its better that way!" anyway, gentoo is cool and all, but its very much becoming the overwhelming cult distro of the linux world. i hope mac users know what they are getting into with this one.

  3. Re:As I Understand It by oojah · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And the big disadvantage with it is compiling OpenOffice...

    (Yes, I know you don't have to)

    Roger

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  4. Re:Oh, boy by agrippa_cash · · Score: 2, Insightful

    While I am among those easily swayed by the 'wow' factor, the poster is not guilty of this offence. He is also a fan of running *Gentoo* Linux becuase of the package system. I would assume that the poster likes Linux in general, and Gentoo because of Portage, as Portage is the main thing that differentiates Gentoo from the other distros.