I haven't looked into this too heavily, but my understanding is that Homebrew prefixes everything it installs. It does not touch any existing files, so uninstal

I haven't looked into this too heavily, but my understanding is that Homebrew prefixes everything it installs. It does not touch any existing files, so uninstallation (even just to reinstall) is just deleting a directory. MacPorts does not work the same way. Edit: grammar.