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Fink VS Portage

Compare Fink VS Portage and see what are their differences

Fink logo Fink

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Portage logo Portage

Portage is source-based package manager used by Gentoo and its descendants. It controls all process from fetching source through building it, installing into clean environment to "merging" with already installed software.
  • Fink Landing page
    Landing page //
    2021-09-17
  • Portage Landing page
    Landing page //
    2023-09-26

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Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to Fink and Portage)
Package Manager
37 37%
63% 63
Front End Package Manager
Developer Tools
0 0%
100% 100
Productivity
100 100%
0% 0

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What are some alternatives?

When comparing Fink and Portage, you can also consider the following products

Homebrew Cask - Install with ease. Your software is just one command away from being ready and raring to go. Forget all about babysitting the install process step by step, from website to cleanup. ls /usr/local/Caskroom google-chrome .

Conda - Binary package manager with support for environments.

Homebrew - The missing package manager for macOS

pkgsrc - pkgsrc is a framework for building over 17,000 open source software packages.

Rudix - Rudix is a package-based, user-friendly way to extend the Unix portion of Mac OS X with additional...

Pacman - Pacman was developed to be the package manager for Arch Linux, and is also used by KDE-focused Chakra Linux.