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Automated Package Management for IRIX?

Posted by Cliff on from the someone-port-apt-get-please dept.

wowbagger asks: "We've all heard of the various apt-get packages for Mac OS X (and more power to them!), but does anybody know of a similar effort for Irix? Yes, SGI has their freeware distribution of GNU and other utilities, but there is as far as I've seen no good way to automatically update - you just have to go to the SGI open source server (when it is available) and try to find something new. Has anyone set up a apt/gentoo/redcarpet system to automate this process"

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  1. Screw SGI by BoomerSooner · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    They don't even give you a listing of prices on their site. You have to call resellers. Why the hell would I want to deal with a reseller instead of the company itself? Sun has a much better model.