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Re:My Mac Mini by goofygrin on Tuesday April 29, 2008 @01:18AM (#176336)
How in the hell do you think that dragging files to an "Applications" folder is unix-y?

Ubuntu: Synaptic or "sudo apt-get install xyz" Fedora: "yum install xyz"

Certainly don't see any goofy dragging app files around here.

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Re:My Mac Mini by mrtron on Tuesday April 29, 2008 @11:10AM (#176592)
Oh dear god.

Using a package manager or manually grabbing the files and building it IS basically like dragging files to an Applications folder.

You have all your files for an app in one known spot. That's all there is (excluding environment variables). What is non-unixy is installing a bunch of garbage into a registry (did I mention I hate registries?).

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Re:My Mac Mini by goofygrin on Tuesday April 29, 2008 @04:23PM (#176955)
No, using a package manager where you select the app you want is NOT like dragging and dropping executables into some magic location on the filesystem.
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Re:My Mac Mini by petercooper on Tuesday April 29, 2008 @06:20PM (#177060)
Package management is modern UNIX-y. I'm talking about the process where you download a single file that contains an application (a disk image or a tarball, say) then perform a process to install the app (dragging or "./configure && make && install").

These OS X / UNIX techniques compared to Windows' "download an EXECUTABLE that does all the installation for you" is like night and day.

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