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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. As I Understand It by Farley+Mullet · · Score: 0, Redundant

    The big advantage behind portage is that you custom compile everything from source according to preferences set locally, so you get all the advantages of being able to control compile-time options without actually having to manually compile things. But since fink allows you to compile packages from source too, i wonder how hard it would be to hack something together to allow you to impose the compile-time options that you want using fink?