I made the switch to homebrew fairly recently (within the last two months). Things I like: * I install everything to ~/.brew/ and it works great. I did _not_

I made the switch to homebrew fairly recently (within the last two months). Things I like: * I install everything to ~/.brew/ and it works great. I did _not_ like their documented recommendation to install everything to /usr/local and chown it as your user. I have yet to run into any issues installing to my home dir. * Installs of things have fewer deps, or at least perceived, compared to macports. Nice to not have a separate copy of everything. I haven't run into issues (yet!) where an OS update makes something puke, so this could be a problem down the road, but so far so good. * Upgrades are very simple: brew update / brew upgrade * Toolset is easy to work with. * timely updates