Fink vs. Darwin vs. Gentoo

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Cr0t · Post by **Cr0t** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 3:16 am

I have been running fink for a long time. I tried gentoo, but I wasn't very satisfied with emerge. Honestly i was very disappointed. Did anyone know if the gentoo system got any better and/or what do u guys think about the darwin system?

jedsen · Post by **jedsen** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 7:17 pm

I'd say Darwin ports is about as reliable as Fink, and Gentoo portage (having the potential to greatly outdo both) is more reliable now, although less so than either Fink or Darwin ports. And by reliable, I mean able to compile/install a certain package without erroring.

If you're looking for a graphical installer, I'd stick with Fink.

coriolan · Post by **coriolan** » Fri Nov 10, 2006 6:19 pm

Hmm, Gentoo OS X forum seems to have just about the least frequent posters. I used portage on my mac for a while but at the time it was rather buggy, and I finally hosed it when it tried to emerge gentoo-sources. I upgraded Fink to the latest version and removed portage. I get a new mac laptop when Panther is released and I may try portage again.

ddc · Post by **ddc** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 10:39 am

emerge --sync

Number of files: 144478
Number of files transferred: 492
Total file size: 159377144 bytes
Total transferred file size: 1745712 bytes
Literal data: 1745712 bytes
Matched data: 0 bytes
File list size: 3267059
Total bytes sent: 9989
Total bytes received: 5035583

sent 9989 bytes received 5035583 bytes 35160.78 bytes/sec
total size is 159377144 speedup is 31.59

>>> Updating Portage cache... \!!! Cannot resolve a virtual package name to an ebuild.
!!! This is a bug, please report it. (virtual/ghostscript-0)
alluminium:~ root#

portage is not working, how to fix it ?

darthbator · Post by **darthbator** » Wed Feb 07, 2007 8:57 pm

I ran into the same issue when syncing portage on my laptop this morning

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Number of files: 144572
Number of files transferred: 7858
Total file size: 159860619 bytes
Total transferred file size: 20082948 bytes
Literal data: 20082948 bytes
Matched data: 0 bytes
File list size: 3291890
Total bytes sent: 157309
Total bytes received: 23729975

sent 157309 bytes  received 23729975 bytes  125392.57 bytes/sec
total size is 159860619  speedup is 6.69

>>> Updating Portage cache... -!!! Cannot resolve a virtual package name to an ebuild.
!!! This is a bug, please report it. (virtual/ghostscript-0)