[edit: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=872072 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=872072 for some clarification on a few Homebrew vs MacPorts misconceptions

[edit: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=872072 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=872072 for some clarification on a few Homebrew vs MacPorts misconceptions.] I used Homebrew for a bit, even submitted some recipes, but I've since switched back to MacPorts, in short because: * MacPorts was once as simple as Homebrew, it's not now for good reasons. Eg, the reason MacPorts uses it's own python is beucase Apple is slow to update their own python, and when they do it happens outside of your own setup so you won't necessarily know you need to rebuild X, Y and Z. * Homebrew did some silly things like aggressive stripping (which seemed to just be commands pulled from the Gentoo wiki without any real justification) which caused problems a few times when I tried to install things outside of Homebrew (eg, easy_install of MySQLdb didn't work out-of-the-box with the Homebrew mysql libs).