macports on linux

[Brandon Allbery]

On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 10:36 PM, Peng Yu <pengyu.ut at gmail.com> wrote:

> Linux packages are usually outdated. Since macports are usually
> updated, is there a way to install macports on linux (e.g. ubuntu).
>

Not usefully; MacPorts exists to port Linux stuff to OS X, and typically
includes OS X-specific patches.

Perhaps you would prefer a rolling release Linux distribution such as
Gentoo or Arch Linux instead of Ubuntu. (I don't know if there are any
apt-based rolling release distributions, but it wouldn't surprised me
greatly. Also note that Gentoo's Portage is a lot like MacPorts; both are
derived in concept from *BSD's ports system, although they take the concept
in somewhat different directions.

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