MacPorts design (curiosity)

Scott Webster sewebster at gmail.com
Wed Oct 5 14:25:09 PDT 2011


Yeah, I think the one word answer to your question is "FreeBSD."

Scott

On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 10:26 AM, Jason Swails <jason.swails at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey,
>
> What was the inspiration behind the MacPorts design?  Were ideas borrowed
> from a specific Linux package manager (the portage system seems pretty
> similar).  I like MacPorts as my Mac package manager, and would love to
> check out a Linux distro's package manager that inspired it (if such a one
> exists).
>
> Just curious.
>
> Thanks!
> Jason
>
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