Mac users, you too can have some OS cake and eat it!
The Fink Project gathers together various Open Source Unix Packages and makes it available for Mac Users to install using their very own package management software - based on Debian! So you can dpkg and apt-get to your hearts content!
Woah. 8159 packages. That's awesome. I'd heard of the GNU-Darwin project, but as a blatantly biased Debian user, something based on dpkg and apt seems a much nicer way to go.
Of course it would be nicer still if OS X had an equivalent package management system that other people could just hook their package repositories into. Unfortunately being able to do something like "apt-get install photoshop", or "apt-get install itunes-src" (to fix the DRM bugs yourself) would probably conflict with the business model of most of the high-profile Mac software vendors.
Fink
Mac users, you too can have some OS cake and eat it!
The Fink Project gathers together various Open Source Unix Packages and makes it available for Mac Users to install using their very own package management software - based on Debian! So you can dpkg and apt-get to your hearts content!
Ruben
tregeagle.com
Re: Fink
Woah. 8159 packages. That's awesome. I'd heard of the GNU-Darwin project, but as a blatantly biased Debian user, something based on dpkg and apt seems a much nicer way to go.
Of course it would be nicer still if OS X had an equivalent package management system that other people could just hook their package repositories into. Unfortunately being able to do something like "apt-get install photoshop", or "apt-get install itunes-src" (to fix the DRM bugs yourself) would probably conflict with the business model of most of the high-profile Mac software vendors.