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		SkyMarshal on April 30, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Thoughts on macOS Package Managers /second Nix on OSX. In addition to your reasons, it doesn't depend on the Mac community for growth and support as Homebrew and MacPorts do. Regardless how many OS X users use it, its bread and butter is NixOS and the Linux server community.

viraptor on April 30, 2019 [–]

Does nix on osx allow you to manage/upgrade native osx packages?

patrec on April 30, 2019 | [–]

I thinks so, e.g. `nix-env --install --attr nixpkgs.emacsMacport`. But there isn't a huge selection of native macOS GUI apps.

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