[colug-432] to present Chicory

[Rick Troth]

Rick --

You would not have come across Chicory.
As far as I know, it's my thing. It evolved from someone else's idea but
I don't think he carried it forward.
The name is almost certainly not used elsewhere. (The original scheme
didn't even have a name.)

Jeff --

Yes, Chicory is a way to build (sometimes even just configure)
applications so they can be installed on demand and used without admin
requirements. (But the admin can always lock down Chicory's sacred
prefix /usr/opt).

When I was working at Nationwide, one of my colleagues showed me
"Portable Apps" for Windows. Really handy to have (e.g.) Firefox on a
flash drive so you could use it in a flash. (pun intended) Chicory
supports running from removable media, but also supports running from
persistent local storage.

Also ... again from when I was at Nationwide ... you can run Chicory
apart from RPM or in concert with it. Probably true for other package
manglers, but confirmed to work with RPM. The trick was simply to get
RPM to inventory the package in question. So the admin who wanted
everything cataloged could have everything cataloged.

-- R; <><



On 06/01/2017 12:19 PM, Jeff Frontz wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 11:24 AM, Rick Hornsby
> <richardjhornsby at gmail.com <mailto:richardjhornsby at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     The most oft cited alternative to brew is MacPorts. I mostly
>     switched over to brew because that's what my client developers
>     were using. I've never come across Chicory.
>
>     Brew and MacPorts are sort of supposed to mirror the idea of
>     apt/yum on macOS - access to a remote repository of packages
>     through a single interface.
>
>
> I use "fink".  I tried using [Home]Brew (a couple of different times)
> but it required messing with stock directories (like /usr/local) and
> had some other shortcomings
> (see https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/32724/what-are-pros-and-cons-for-macports-fink-and-homebrew
> )
>
> But it seems like Chicory is a bit different from these "make
> Linux/Unix-y tools/packages available on MacOS via turnkey system",
> right?  The latter are more like communities/efforts/infrastructures
> to get ports to work, but Chicory seems more like a toolkit that might
> be used to implement such a community/effort/infrastructure.  Or did I
> misunderstand the write-up?
>
> Jeff
>
>
>
>
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