I switched to brew because it goes out of its way to avoid breaking your system. I recently gave macports another try and the experience involved editing Portfi

I switched to brew because it goes out of its way to avoid breaking your system. I recently gave macports another try and the experience involved editing Portfiles over and over again to try to get applications to work. The most common complaint (changing permissions on /usr/local) isn’t a problem with the arm64 version which now uses /opt/brew but, also, as far as my trust model goes, it isn’t a problem for me: I already have $HOME/bin on my path and, so, any local exploit that relies on overwriting system executables has multiple ways of tricking me into running a malicious program.