[rescue] Any users of MacPorts?

Michael-John Turner mj at mjturner.net
Thu Sep 4 18:31:56 UTC 2025


On Wed, Sep 03, 2025 at 08:42:29AM +0200, Jochen Kunz via rescue wrote:
>I use MacPorts since switching my desktop to a Mac in late 2013. It is 
>my go-to solution to install freeware from the *ix freeware ecosystem.

I thought you'd be more of a pkgsrc user :)

Seriously though, I find pkgsrc works really well on macOS, although there
won't be pre-built packages for PPC Macs, as there are for x86_64 and Apple
Silicon machines (see [1]).

[1] https://pkgsrc.smartos.org/install-on-macos/

Cheers, MJ
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