MacPorts, Fink, etc.

Posted by Ben Alpert on Super User See other posts from Super User or by Ben Alpert
Published on 2009-08-24T03:15:26Z Indexed on 2010/03/16 5:56 UTC
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On my Mac OS X (10.5, soon to be 10.6) machine, how would you recommend I install various software that's been ported from Linux? I don't install such software very frequently, but I've been using MacPorts and it always seems quite slow, presumably because it has to compile the packages on-the-fly.

I'd much prefer a package management system that has binary packages, saving me the need to compile things every time I want to download something new. I think Fink has binaries for some of the packages, but I usually see MacPorts recommended as the system to use.

Which do you think works better and why? (Or is there another system that I haven't heard of?)

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