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Yeah, macports still works fine. It has an equivalent to the OpenBSD flavors and does versioning fine. The only pain point is OS upgrades.

• abzug 5y ago
  And the fact that it "needs" Xcode installed.
  • jt2190 5y ago
    If my pre-coffee memory is correct, Macports only needs command-line tools for XCode. xcode-select --install That said, MacPorts is often opinionated, e.g. they package certain versions of some software and not others.
    • abzug 5y ago
      I just said what's on the "Installing MacPorts" section of the site: https://www.macports.org/install.php https://www.macports.org/install.php > 1. Install Xcode and the Xcode Command Line Tools
  • Wowfunhappy 5y ago
    It does not, it does need the "command line tools" installed. Certain ports require full Xcode but not too many.