I feel MacPorts has a better design conceptually, but having used it for the past few weeks, I feel the execution isn't quite there yet. I also get the feeling that the team is very slow on MacPorts.
Fink uses a dpkg/apt-like system, which means binaries are pre-compiled for you. So you lose in flexibility (which is why I feel ports has a better design), but I suspect (having not used it in a while nor for long) that the team is better.
There's also Gentoo Prefix which has ported Gentoo's Portage over to other OSes, including OS X. They're pretty good, but lacking in package selection. I ported over at least a dozen packages in the 2-3 weeks I used them (it's 1-3 commands in 85% of the cases).
Fink uses a dpkg/apt-like system, which means binaries are pre-compiled for you. So you lose in flexibility (which is why I feel ports has a better design), but I suspect (having not used it in a while nor for long) that the team is better.
There's also Gentoo Prefix which has ported Gentoo's Portage over to other OSes, including OS X. They're pretty good, but lacking in package selection. I ported over at least a dozen packages in the 2-3 weeks I used them (it's 1-3 commands in 85% of the cases).