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jahewson
on March 8, 2016
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CocoaPods downloads max out five GitHub server CPU...
Care to substantiate that last paragraph? Are you really suggesting OS X users use yum?
yegle
on March 8, 2016
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Why not? dpkg is already been used by jailbroken devices in Cydia.
wyldfire
on March 8, 2016
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Actually it seems very likely that one or more of the popular linux distro package manager ecosystems would fare well on other OSs. Arch Linux's pacman was ported to Windows, e.g..
286c8cb04bda
on March 9, 2016
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pacman has been ported to OS X a few times
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=53960 https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=122544
umanwizard
on March 8, 2016
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It's absolutely possible to install yum on OS X (I know this from experience)
rodgerd
on March 9, 2016
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Why not? A friend of mine was employed by a Very Large Company at one point to (amongst other things) maintain their AIX port of rpm/yum.
pjc50
on March 8, 2016
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Not
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yum, but something with a similar design rather than abusing a git repo.
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