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bravo_sierra on Oct 2, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: Thank you, Ubuntu

MacPorts can be hard to grep if you haven't used a BSD before (not that it's great anyway), and Fink is a bit more painful than apt et al.

If you're on OSX, the ace up it's sleeve is Homebrew[1]. Definitely the easiest package management system anywhere.

[1]: http://github.com/mxcl/homebrew

spacemanaki on Oct 2, 2010 [–]

I'd forgotten about Homebrew but found it again when I went hunting for the earlier discussion on HN... I'll definitely be checking it out soon, thanks.

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