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Re:Walt Mossberg Reviews Dell Ubuntu: "...still too rough ar... by vegashacker on Friday September 14, 2007 @05:02PM (#54729)
The two or three times I've used Macports, the version of the program Macports installed was out-of-date to the point of not working at all on my machine. I just end up recompiling from source. (The last example of this was with FreeImage.)

Now just yesterday I had a problem with apt-get on Ubuntu installing a bogus version of (I think it was) Ruby Gems.

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Re:Walt Mossberg Reviews Dell Ubuntu: "...still too rough ar... by chaostheory on Friday September 14, 2007 @05:39PM (#54737)
yeah I've had the same problem with stuff that isn't that popular (to me that is) - though the good part about macports and fink is that they pretty much run in a sandbox (not a true one but at least in file location) that you can reset or wipe out... not to mention it's a lot easier to find where stuff is installed
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