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Homebrew isn't great but having to manually remove and reinstall all macports every os upgrade, having to deal with messed up dependencies and debugging failed
by mnm1 8y ago
Homebrew isn't great but having to manually remove and reinstall all macports every os upgrade, having to deal with messed up dependencies and debugging failed compiling errors manually, and having macports libraries conflict with other mac software and making it crash was just too much. I need at best a few tools provided by these package managers and I don't want to spend hours messing around with their configurations. I just want them to work. Brew used to have issues for me but the last couple of years it's been the least buggy experience. That's all that matters. I don't give a fuck if it uses sudo or not, where they store files, or even if I have to disable system protection. All that is simply irrelevant. I just want things to work so I can get my actual work done. That is what makes a package manager better and that's why brew these days is much better than macports.
- kitsunesoba 8y agoPrecisely, the goal is to do a quick 'manager install foo --bar' when called for an move on with life.