On 02-05-2005 13:52, Ollivier Robert wrote:
According to Brian Lalor:
take this time, however, to make sure everyone's aware of DarwinPorts. For reasons I completely forget, now, I've preferred DarwinPorts to Fink since I started using OS X.
You have the same differences as between Debian and FreeBSD (no flame intended): more reactivity, more up-to-date packages and preference for source-to-be-compiled packages.
Also big plus for me is making *really* sure that it will not tamper with other files than the one it installs itself. I found this great guide [1] to install DarwinPorts under a special ports user, which only has rights to the directory where it is supposed to install stuff and nowhere else.
I was always doubting about Fink or DP and chose Fink for it's point and click interface, that turned out to be horrible, but worked most of the time. Now that I'm on Tiger, I'll switch to DP if I have time..
Jeroen.