Re:Yea, and? (Score 1)

FINALLY!

We've got multiple gentoo boxes and work exclusively on macs and this is at last a very good package manager that was missing from osx.. and here is the answer :-)

• Keyword support
  
  just set your USE flags correctly and you won't be building 50 packages when trying to install e.g. postgres (which has optional java support, optional perl support optional python support, which in turn will build X11 because some small utility needs X11). Fink would require one package for each variant, in portage you just set
  
  USE="-X11 -java -perl -python"
  
  and all the optional stuff won't build.
• have platform specific CFLAGS and make flags (the -j2)
• you can switch to unstable (or development packages) for each package you want to install:
  
  ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge apache
  
  and it would also consider the "not stable" apache.
  
• hopefully have a well maintained package tree. Almost all packages in fink that are recent are in the "unstable" branch
• mask single versions that you don't want or that are known
  to be broken