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'brew' works really well, no need for them to reinvent the wheel.

• gizdan 5y ago
  Really well is an overstatement. You shouldn't have to wait several hours to do a brew upgrade.
  • vorpalhex 5y ago
    Do you have a package being built from source instead of bottle? Brew upgrade takes less than ten minutes or so for me. Things that influence this will be the amount and size of your installed packages and whether they have prebuilt binaries ("bottles") or if you need to build them from source. The latter is on your package maintainers.
• grzm 5y ago
  If there were no need to reinvent the wheel, there would be no brew. macports (and fink) predate brew. The wheel is in the eye of the beholder. I use brew primarily only for packages that are only available on brew. I’m moving to nixpkgs for my packaging needs as soon as the M1 support drops.