Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 16th Jun 2005 08:54 UTC
The Mac platform was always considered a premium platform, hence much of its software is shareware or commercial. In the recent days more freeware applications have emerged, but the majority are small utilities and not full scale applications. Enter the world of GNU which can not only provide "free" applications as in beer, but most importantly, "Free", as in Freedom.
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DarwinPorts installs only "Aqua" apps under /Applications but, in order not to interfere with system libraries, it puts all the other packages under /opt/local so you can easily get rid of them: in the past many problems araised when using Apple's versions of basic libraries such as fontconfig, libiconv, gettext, ecc, and at the end it had been better duplicate them.
The real problem of DarwinPorts is IMHO the lack of Apple's support: it will suffice 2 or 3 donated Xserves to devote to a central building cluster or an automated Xgrid P2P network to distribute the burden of compiling optimized packages for x86-64 or G5.