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Homebrew was not the first. There was Fink and MacPorts before it. I would guess it became prominent because of the UX? Sold my mac before Homebrew was around.
by lmz 9y ago
Homebrew was not the first. There was Fink and MacPorts before it. I would guess it became prominent because of the UX? Sold my mac before Homebrew was around.
- cmiles74 9y agoHomebrew, at the time, was the first to try and build against the libraries that came with MacOS. For a lot of packages this was a huge time saver as it would be compiling a third the amount of code that MacPorts was churning through.