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Who is using either of the two? I was using Fink on my PowerBook up till I sold it and now with a fresh 10.4 install on my G5 I think that it is time for one of them.

I was just wondering if anybody is using Darwin Ports and what they like about it?

I tried Fink first and I couldn't get anything to work in it. I was new to things at the time, so I was probably doing something wrong.

DarwinPorts is great, I think. Very simple and very reliable.

I've used fink since the early days and its come a long way. Get FinkCommander if you are new to it. It makes life much easier.

I'm a fink contributor so I wont suggest one over the other.

MacPorts/Darwin Ports all the way baby.

I used Fink originally but found that some of the packages I needed were very out of date so I tried MacPorts.
It apppears to be more up to date and you get the added satisfaction that it compiles everything.
Which is good if you're a Gentoo fanboi or bad if you have a slow machine/internet connection.

I've had no reason to try fink recently so it may be better than when I last tried it a year or so ago.

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I use pkgsrc. I like to keep it so that I can use the same method for more than one platform. Works for probably 80% of the packages I've needed.

Fink has let me down a few times, so I'm a full-time MacPorts user, now.

I use the ports, but it drives me nuts.

The one problem I have consistently is that it uses FTP to grab the files, and FTP usually locks up. It'll download the file all the way then never close the connection - FTP just hangs.

I've had that problem with FTP on all of my computers at every physical location I've ever lived in for as long as I can remember. I think FTP just sucks or something.

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FTP is just plain wonky. Control connections, with a separate data connection, argh. Makes a firewall administrator's life unnecessarily difficult.

I'm a Fink man, tried DarwinPorts and had some snags then went back to Fink or FinkCommander.

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I've been using Fink for years without issue, but I'll probably give DarwinPorts a try to see how it compares.

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OMG.

I just started installing GIMP on my 27 inch iMac at work using "sudo port install gimp" and the dependancies it required included Orbit-2 (A CORBA Object Request Broker) and libusb (a USB package for poking about in the USB bus).

Go MacPorts !!! Kill my internet bandwidth!

Latest model iMac with 16Gb RAM and an hour and a half later and its still going...
Looks like other people have weird issues trying to install gimp from MacPorts as well.. http://old.nabble.com/-MacPorts---29356 ... #a31536168

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Gimp on OSX using the X11 server was very problematic for me. I ended up purchasing Pixelmator for my quick photo work. Don't regret that part.

Mac ports is great, but your right, the initial port install of anything comes with building a ton of dependencies and it makes even the big macs cry a little.

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A growing number of developers in my office are starting to use Homebrew instead of Mac Ports.

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Homebrew looks very inviting. I was gonna go back to DarwinPorts since I dumped it when I did a fresh install for 10.6 but I dunno it was great and all but didn't seem to be it.

I use Aperture for all of my photos but if there is a file I just want to quickly crop/resize/etc without adding it to my library, gimp is great for this. I find gimp much easier to use if you turn on the Click-through Inactive Windows option in the X server.

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