Thank you for sharing your experience on this :). > I can see how setting up everything in one place could be useful, but I haven't run into a situation where

Thank you for sharing your experience on this :). > I can see how setting up everything in one place could be useful, but I haven't run into a situation where it has been useful in my macOS usage quite yet. What appeals to me personally is having a list of apps (the “Brewfile”), that I can sync between my work and personal computer via my dotfiles, and let the system mirror what apps are installed on both devices (“brew bundle” installs or uninstalls apps based on that app list). And that if I need to replace my machine, I can just sync my dotfiles to new machine and let Homebrew autorestore apps, including third-party apps and things from App Store. I’ve tried some “declarative package managers“ before and enjoyed that, so when articles like this [1] said Homebrew can apparently do the same across open-source software, Mac App Store apps, and third-party apps, via a single synced Brewfile, that seemed interesting. The same Brewfile also appears to be usable on Linux for open-source apps (via Linuxbrew). But I don’t yet have any experience with it, so I have no idea how well it works or whether it’s worth it. If we disregard third-party apps, do you know if MacPorts has an equivalent to Brewfile? [1]: https://openfolder.sh/macos-migrations-with-brewfile https://openfolder.sh/macos-migrations-with-brewfile