[geeks] Mac OS X packages - from whence?

[Kurt Huhn]

On Mar 16, 2005, at 12:35 AM, Micah R Ledbetter wrote:

> I am now the proud owner of a 12" PowerBook, a -very- suprising 
> birthday gift. I love it.
>
> One thing I'm not sure of, though, is where to get my UNIX packages. 
> There's fink, darwinports, pkgsrc, gentoo/portage, and osxgnu (and 
> possibly more of which I am not aware). Does anyone have any 
> particular one to recommend over the others, or does it particularly 
> matter?
>

I have found that, with OS X 10.3, you really don't need much extra.  
With 10.1, yeah, you needed some sort of "ports" package to get things 
going, but since 10.3 came out, everyone seems to making OS X binaries 
available.  Also, Apple has been including a *bunch* of the GNU crap 
(like gcc) in the base OS, and stuff seems to build just fine.  I can't 
recall the last time I had a problem building *sane* code under OS X.

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