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I've been using a scheme now called <a
href="http://www.casita.net/chicory/">Chicory</a> since ... a
long time ago. (Years before it even had a name.) Would love to
present it at a COLUG meeting and maybe get others to join in the
party. <br>
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Chicory comes to mind because we acquired an Airbook for my wife
and I have naturally <u>begun tinkering</u>. One result of
tinkering is that I have added "<font face="Courier New, Courier,
monospace">Darwin-x86_64</font>" to a growing body of
ready-to-run packages. There are more than a dozen other platforms
(e.g., <font face="Courier New, Courier, monospace">Linux-i386</font>,
<font face="Courier New, Courier, monospace">Linux-s390</font>, <font
face="Courier New, Courier, monospace">FreeBSD-amd64</font>).
The packages are things like GnuPG, which I sometimes get from
distro/vendor but usually build from source "just because". (Not
as if I have time to actually vet the source each release, but
re-compile allows for that and takes control up a notch in any
case.) <br>
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Does anyone use "brew" or "homebrew"? It's a popular Mac-centric
scheme that seems to be a little like Chicory (but more formal and
has an actual following). My friend and mentor Glenn, who has been
a Mac enthusiast for probably 15 years, described Brew to me in
response to my comments about Chicory. There is a LinuxBrew
project with a much smaller following than Mac Homebrew. The
concept looks great, but some of the requirements put me off a
bit. <br>
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Chicory is easy: a master prefix (not unlike Homebrew), safe for
any package manager, based on sym-linkery, no particular language
requirement (shell scripts work, or anything else one might want
to use), flexible package residence. <br>
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Gettin close to summer, so maybe no COLUG meetings for a few
months. (Or is this topic even interesting?) <br>
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-- R; <><<br>
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