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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. GTK+ Native or X-Windowed? by erebus24 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Being a gentoo fan I know the portage for Mac OS X is a good thing (tm)... But I hate having to use the X11 server on my mac, I'd prefer everything to be as native as possible. So will it include the option to use one of the gtk+ Mac native ports (and possibly other widget/graphics libraries) or will we still have to crank up X11 before we can run any of the programs we install through the portage?

  2. 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

  3. OS X will bring more geeks to the world by chia_monkey · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Does anyone else see all this as such a beautiful way to bring more *NIX geeks to the world? The Mac used to be considered a "toy". REAL programmers code on their PCs or Sparc stations. But now you have this Mac toy with such powerful UNIX underpinnings that is really getting the programming and hacking community excited.

    I can see kids toying around on their parent's Mac. They tinker. They tinker more. Soon they're playing with Fink or with Gentoo. All of a sudden there are soooo many *NIX hackers out there that didn't even mean to be in the arena.

    I know I'm guilty of it. And thousands more will be in no time at all.

    --

    "He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts...for support rather than illumination." - Andrew Lang
  4. 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.

  5. Oh, boy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I love Mac OS X, but I'm also a fan of running Gentoo Linux because of its powerful package management system.

    Ladies and gentlemen, in case you're wondering, THIS is what "missing the point" looks like in its purest form.

    Anybody who chooses their operating system based not on the software that's available for that operating system but the method for installing that software is missing the point. Grandly.