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June 9th, 2004

Managing Packages on Panther with DarwinPorts

Ernest Rothman has an excellent tutorial on managing Unix software packages via DarwinPorts. DarwinPorts often complements Fink in that one sometimes offers ports that the other does not, and it seems they can be made to co-exist peacefully.

Posted by Justin at 3:08 PM PDT — Tags: ,

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One Response to “Managing Packages on Panther with DarwinPorts”

  1. Justin says:

    What does everyone use, and why? One admittedly small data point: DarwinPorts had a new port of the Subversion 1.0.4 source control system within a few days of release, while Fink seems to have pulled all its Subversion ports (presumably until they are done with their own 1.0.4 port).

    I also like that DarwinPorts installs into /opt/local/ instead of Fink’s /sw/, because that way all of the files are hidden from the Finder without having to do any extra work. On the other hand, DarwinPorts doesn’t seem to have a nice GUI akin to FinkCommander.

    What has everyone else’s experiences been? Which do you prefer?

    June 9th, 2004 at 3:48 pm