Ryan Schmidt wrote: > On Feb 19, 2019, at 07:13, S. L. Garwood wrote: > > > So my philosophical question is “Why MacPorts these days?”. > > Same reason as always: to help you install software on your Mac. If > you prefer installing software in a VM running a different OS, by all > means do so, but it's not the same thing.
Another philosophical question you might want to ask yourself is "Why macOS these days?" That's only a bit facetious (a large bit, admittedly). If you mostly use a VM, you might be better off just installing that OS on the hardware and replacing macOS. Just a thought. The only reason I use macos at all is because it's unixy. I spend most of my time in full screen X11 using many programs and languages from macports. Even without X11, macports makes it easy to install and upgrade lots of software that would otherwise be cumbersome to install individually, let alone keep up to date. I wasn't even aware that Apple supported macports. Apple doesn't really support X11 like it used to either and it doesn't work quite as well as it does under Linux but it'll do. >From my point of view, macports makes it possible to keep using macOS. Without it, Linux in a VM or replacing macOS altogether would be hard to resist. cheers, raf
