[jperkin]

> At the moment, the best I can find for OS X is Rudix. The selection of available software is pathetic compared to Homebrew and Nix, but a lot of the core stuff is there and it's all packaged as a .pkg, which makes it really easy to cleanly erase installed software.

Apologies for hijacking a Nix thread, but I'd love your views on our OS X binary package sets[0]. We currently ship over 14,000 pre-built signed packages, all self-contained under /opt/pkg, and easy to search/install/remove using pkgin which has a familiar feel to anyone used to apt-get/yum/etc.

The packages are continuously built from pkgsrc trunk so should be reasonably up-to-date, and we try to be responsive when users need newer versions or packages built with different options.

So far the feedback has been positive, but I'd love to see more use-cases so we can improve the experience for everybody. Thanks.

[0] https://pkgsrc.joyent.com/install-on-osx/

[curun1r]

I wasn't aware of this, but it looks really promising. Thank you for posting this!