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Mark Duling committed Aug 20, 2007
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<title>Introduction</title>

<para>MacPorts is a system for compiling, installing, and managing free and
open source software. MacPorts may be thought of as divided into two main
open source software. MacPorts may be conceptually divided into two main
parts: the infrastructure, known as MacPorts base, and the set of available
ports. A MacPorts "port" is a set of specifications contained in a
ports. A MacPorts port is a set of specifications contained in a
<filename>Portfile</filename> that defines an application, its
characteristics, and any files or special instructions required to install
it, so MacPorts may automatically fetch, patch, compile, and install ported
software.</para>

<para>MacPorts may also be used to pre-compile ported software into binaries
that may be installed on remote computers. Binaries of ported software may
be installed very quickly since the steps required to install ports from
source code have all been performed in advance.</para>

<para>MacPorts provides several major advantages over installing free and
open source software manually.</para>
<para>But MacPorts provides several major advantages over installing free
and open source software manually, beyond merely automating software
installation.</para>

<itemizedlist>
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<para>MacPorts confines ported software to a private "sandbox" that
keeps it from intermingling with your operating system and its
vendor-supplied software and prevents them from becoming
corrupted.</para>
vendor-supplied software to prevent them from becoming corrupted.</para>
</listitem>

<listitem>
<para>MacPorts provides automatic uninstalls and upgrades of ported
software.</para>
<para>MacPorts provides automatic uninstalls and upgrades for installed
ports.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>

<para>MacPorts may also be used to pre-compile ported software into binaries
that may be installed on remote computers. Binaries of ported software may
be installed very quickly since the steps required to install ports from
source code have all been performed in advance.</para>

<para>MacPorts is developed on Mac OS X, though it is designed to be
portable so it can work on other Unix-like systems, especially those
descended from the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD).</para>
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