I switched to Macports back in my Mac days, used it as my daily driver for about 18 months before moving to Linux. Macports has this appearance of being 'dated

I switched to Macports back in my Mac days, used it as my daily driver for about 18 months before moving to Linux. Macports has this appearance of being 'dated', and not the cool kid compared to Homebrew. But it doesn't have an opinion on what version of software you can install. Want postgres 9.4? Go ahead and install it. Want some ancient version of some other library? That's fine. Dealing with custom port files and repositories isn't quite as easy, I suppose, but that's not really much different to setting up a debian repo in that it's a use case you won't encounter nearly as often as just installing stuff. I also used nixpkgs at one point, many moons ago. That was also nice but not the most practical on a Macbook with 128GB storage, when you also have Docker, npm/ruby dependencies, and your native Mac software in the mix.