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Homebrew is not the only package provider for MacOS.

• reikonomusha 7y ago
  Would Apple be in the wrong simply being opinionated about using Homebrew?
  • hasahmed 7y ago
    Yes
    • csomar 7y ago
      I'm not sure why you are getting downvoted. I'd not like it if Apple will opinion-ate and make any package manager a default. Package managers are for software developers. They are comfortable installing them on their own.
      • kzzzznot 7y ago
        I expect he’s getting downvoted because he doesn’t offer any reasoning (or substance at all) along with his opinion.
        • csomar 7y ago
          The reasoning was in the question itself. Sometimes a prompt answer is a better one.
  • mschuster91 7y ago
    Yes, because Homebrew's practice of installing packages runs contrary to the requirements of a multi-user system.
  • wyufro 7y ago
    MacPorts is sponsored by Apple, or at least used to be.
    • anentropic 7y ago
      TBH it's weird they haven't built their own
      • saagarjha 7y ago
        They did: https://trac.macports.org/wiki/MacPortsHistory https://trac.macports.org/wiki/MacPortsHistory
    • raimue 7y ago
      MacPorts was originally started as DarwinPorts as part of the OpenDarwin initiative at Apple [1]. Apple continued to sponsor MacPorts by providing hosting of website, repository, and build servers at Mac OS forge [2] until it closed back in 2016. The project then moved to GitHub and their own servers. [1] https://trac.macports.org/wiki/MacPortsHistory https://trac.macports.org/wiki/MacPortsHistory [2] https://www.macosforge.org/ https://www.macosforge.org/