Homebrew is the best, but I always end up building everything I need from scratch, because I'm paranoid that some idiot package maintainer will require some tin

Homebrew is the best, but I always end up building everything I need from scratch, because I'm paranoid that some idiot package maintainer will require some tiny library that will necessitate building and installing X11, which software is largely the reason I use a goddamn Macintosh in the first place. Also, Interface Builder.