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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. Re:Shoe horns by node+3 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Uh, Fink does exactly what you're describing, except it uses /sw instead of /opt.

    DarwinPorts does the ugly shoe-horning cludge. Fink is elegant.

    No, DarwinPorts installs in /opt/ (/opt/local/, in fact).

    DarwinPorts is more elegant than Fink (I think you've confused DarwinPorts with someone else who I won't name here). Fink is simpler to use, though, but being available as a .dmg may change that.