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I switched after having to blow away my Macports directory and start over four times in the first year I used it due to unrecoverable levels of brokenness. ~4 y
by ashark 11y ago
I switched after having to blow away my Macports directory and start over four times in the first year I used it due to unrecoverable levels of brokenness. ~4 years of HomeBrew later and the worst I've had to do is `chmod`.
- mmastrac 11y agoHaving used both, I agree. Homebrew is just better. I have not had to start from scratch with Homebrew. I had to start from scratch multiple times with MacPorts once I had installed a critical mass of conflicting packages.
- teacup50 11y agoIf you've been using Homebrew for 4 years, you probably missed MacPorts' adoption of binary packages, automatic detection+repair of broken library linking, sandboxing of builds, etc. That's resolved all of the fragility (and heinous build times) that previously existed.