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bainganbharta 3 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Our audit of Homebrew

This is the pkgsrc-based package manager I use on macOS. It's simple and has the packages I need.

https://pkgsrc.smartos.org/install-on-macos/

throw0101a 3 months ago [–]

> https://pkgsrc.smartos.org/install-on-macos/

Note that Pkgsrc is a NetBSD-derived project.

* https://pkgsrc.org

The Joyent folks leveraged it to allow their customers, who were perhaps not as familiar with Solaris/SmartOS, a larger pool of packages. Pkgsrc was running on Solaris before Joyent, Joyent built on top of it.

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