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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Rick --<br>
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You would not have come across Chicory. <br>
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. <br>
The name is almost certainly not used elsewhere. (The original
scheme didn't even have a name.) <br>
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Jeff --<br>
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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 <font face="Courier New, Courier, monospace">/usr/opt</font>).
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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. <br>
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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. <br>
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-- R; <><<br>
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On 06/01/2017 12:19 PM, Jeff Frontz wrote:<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 11:24 AM, Rick
Hornsby <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
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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 <a
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href="https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/32724/what-are-pros-and-cons-for-macports-fink-and-homebrew">https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/32724/what-are-pros-and-cons-for-macports-fink-and-homebrew</a>
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<div class="gmail_extra">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?</div>
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