Re: [microsound] Gentoo for MacOS

[Alex Young <alex@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

It uses Gentoo's ports-based system (Portage), instead of Debian's 
tools (apt and dpkg).

It's worth reading the Gentoo weekly news on this in case you're not 
sure:

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.weekly-news/80

On a related note, you may find this interesting:

http://www.metapkg.org/

It's also worth noting that the applications that Niklas says "never 
quite ran on OS" are
actually running on os x when used with these systems.  Gentoo for Mac 
OS and Fink
merely provide convenient pre-packaged solutions to ease the pain of 
installing an
application and its dependencies.

On 20 Jul 2004, at 13:33, Maurice Rickard wrote:
> At 3:31 PM +1200 7/20/04, Niklas Werner wrote:
> > The port to OS X unleashes the power of all the nice Unix-applications
> > that never quite ran on OS X.
>
> I'm curious--how is this different from Fink?  Admittedly, I wasn't 
> curious enough to sit through the interminable page load.
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