[OSX-Users] Re: mac tool to convert video to .flv

[Philip Boulain]

  On 05/08/2010 15:07, Daniel Thorpe wrote:
> I do however recommend using homebrew http://github.com/mxcl/homebrew which is a package manage for OS X, which is so much better than Fink and MacPorts...

Since the problem with Fink and MacPorts has been the needless 
redundancy of there being two open-source package managers for OS X and 
the resulting dilution of maintenance effort meaning that they alternate 
over which one is unusable outdated or broken in any given year, I'm not 
sure how adding a third competitor helps the situation.

 From bitter experience, avoid these, and compile from source the old 
fashioned way. It's more typing, but you'll at least have some control 
and a clear upgrade path as long as ffmpeg et. al. are spitting out 
source tarballs. Package management is a good thing, but nobody but the 
platform vendor is in a position to put in the dedication to maintain it.

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