macports on linux

[James Linder]

On 03/04/2013, at 3:00 AM, macports-users-request at lists.macosforge.org wrote:

>> If not, the old fashioned way of installing via a tarball is pretty much
>> the way to go. Linux is pretty much set up out the box to do this (after
>> installing 'Development Tools' or build-essential & so on) so it's
>> usually no sweat.
> 
> This is what pkgsrc uses as a interoperable solution (afaik there are some 
> pkgsrc peoples here within macports) BUT including a clean software management 
> allowing clean installs, deinstall, rolling updates, feature management etc. 
> (as macport does on Mac only).

My $0.02

The (original) comment is off-the-cuff and not well considered:

Both rpm and deb build systems are as easy (or IMHO easier) than macports.
If (and there are many ways, gentoo and archlinux are already mentioned) you use SuSE's build service you can get already created pretty much the latest of anything you choose (I admit being wrong a few times).

So I think saying 'lets doit with macports' is a silly idea that glosses over the already working systems because (say) apt-get on ubuntu gets old packages (which it is supposed to do !! I want a working well debuged stable whatever, not the latest greatest attempt)

James