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Dmitry A. Kazakov <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> wrote:

> Why did nobody port rpm-dnf or dpkg-apt to OS X?

MacOS users can expect a working DMG, at least if the vendor is not in
[Oracle].
Also, MacOS offers a pretty stable BSD Unix, I‘d think. MacPort etc. have
been
one backfiring maintenance hazard needing attention all the time.

I don‘t know a good reason for free software to depend on layers of Unix
“ported” to Unix!
Isn’t it a better idea to clean out dated non-portable non-POSIX
dependences?

Even performance wise, and addressing architecture, if GNAT can benefit
from
features of the Darwin OS, why put a hindrance of several layers of C
libraries in
between?