How to install software packages on a Mac? (MacPorts, Fink, anything better?)
- by Ben Alpert
On my Mac OS X machine, how would you recommend I install command line software and other packages? 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?)