Tim O'Reilly: I am really starting to hate Mac OS X.

Re:Tim O'Reilly: I am really starting to hate Mac OS X. by wes-exp on Saturday November 12, 2011 @02:26PM (#3228631)

FYI, I just installed duplicity and rdiff-backup through Homebrew and it worked flawlessly. Agree that MacPorts is crap. But Homebrew is actually pretty good.

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Re:Tim O'Reilly: I am really starting to hate Mac OS X. by nupark2 on Saturday November 12, 2011 @08:23PM (#3229501)

I just ran: sudo port install duplicity sudo port install rdiff-backup

Worked flawlessly, too.

MacPorts isn't crap just because it isn't -- for whatever reason -- what you want.

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Re:Tim O'Reilly: I am really starting to hate Mac OS X. by pja on Sunday November 13, 2011 @11:55AM (#3231133)

Last time I looked, Homebrew wasn't even trying to deal with conflicting dependencies, or any of the other hard corner cases of package management. MacPorts at least makes a decent effort on that front.

Has it improved recently?

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Re:Tim O'Reilly: I am really starting to hate Mac OS X. by statictype on Saturday November 12, 2011 @06:53PM (#3229304)

Thanks. Will try it.

Edit: Yup, flawless installation and fast. Thanks again! I wish I had found this when I was trying to re-install Python Imaging Library after upgrading to Lion. I might have saved half a day.

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