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DarwinPorts Now Available as a .dmg

Posted by timothy on from the what's-your-dmg-heather dept.

MitsuMirage writes "From Apple's ADC mailing list: 'OpenDarwin.org has released DarwinPorts 1.0 to provide an easy way to install various open source software products on the Darwin OS family (OpenDarwin, Mac OS X and Darwin). Version 1.0 features about 2500 completed ports.'"

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  1. Inevitable "fink vs" post by WasterDave · · Score: 4, Interesting

    So, can someone in the know tell me why I might want to use darwin ports over fink?

    A little background: I switched from FreeBSD to Linux (Debian) a few years back purely for the ease of patching. I don't go for this compile from source shit at all and would far rather be receiving the same binaries as everyone else in 1/100th the time. So when I heard that the FreeBSD ports concept was being moved to Apple I was, like, "blah" and continued using Fink. A bit.

    Why on earth would I want to use darwin ports? I just don't get it.

    Dave

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