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Indeed. And while OSX might have a BSD heritage the command line isn't exactly where it's at with OSX.

Strikes me as being written by someone that does more reading than building.

OSX makes me feel nostalgic. Every time I open the terminal, I feel like I am on a VT-100 running Unix on a VAX...

Seriously: having no package management as a central part of the OS is so 70's... The next step could be charging extra for compilers...

Installing MacPorts is trivial.

Have you ever tried to delete every file that a .pkg installation creates on your hard drive, good luck! I think this is what he was trying to say, even slackware has a better package management than OS X... MacPorts mitigate this for some software but not all, but I still prefer pkgsrc.

I know it is - I have it installed on my Macs. Unfortunately, it's slow, cumbersome and can't do a lot of stuff apt or yum can rather easily. I tried Fink before, but it's not the same. And you are not package managing the OS, but a "shadow" of it in a different file tree.

It's a kludge.

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