Comparison to other package managers for new users (was: Re: Deprecating port list)

Olivier Le Floch alakazam at macports.org
Thu Apr 9 03:40:47 PDT 2009


>> The Guide explains usage. If the goal is to create a document that  
>> helps you
>> migrate your knowledge from another package manager to MacPorts,  
>> then maybe
>> MigratingToMacPorts, MacPortsMigration, or just Migrating would be  
>> a good
>> page name.
>
> That implies the reader stops working with Linux, which is not the
> most likely case. And the whole idea of this document seem to
> be a special-audience text, at the expense of having a single
> documentation like the guide. Remember this is documentation,
> so redundancy for the sake of understandability is acceptable.
>
> I agree that my name suggestions where quite lame, though. Please
> don't use them. :)

How about MacportsForLinuxUsers ? (since I guess most of the other  
package managers are on linux)


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