[alviria]

The problem I'm seeing is that what OS X has isn't a unified system, and what Apple promotes isn't want developers want to/can use. So you see time and effort going into tools like this that only last a few years. It results in more fracturing in the end.

In this popular diagram, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/77/Unix_his..., NeXTSTEP was originally forked in 1988, before Linux really had package management put together. Darwin is from 2001.

Is 14 years not enough time to establish a proprietor supported unified package management system?

My expectations may just be set too high.

[jd3]

I think you are underestimating Apple's apathy when it comes to doing anything of real interest anymore. We don't even get Darwin .iso releases or changelogs anymore. [0] We are left in an arguably worse state of affairs. It's not just sad; it's boring.

[0]: https://opensource.apple.com/static/iso/