> My experience has been that very, very rarely is any installation as straightforward as "curl && ./configure && make PREFIX=whatever install", partially due t

> My experience has been that very, very rarely is any installation as straightforward as "curl && ./configure && make PREFIX=whatever install", partially due to everyone in the known universe thinking they need some awesome new build system [...] Aye, This is particularly impacting when the build system itself needs to be eh built. > The value of Homebrew to me are the constantly bumped formulae descriptors, definitely, 100% NOT the "brew" frontend for it. [...] and using "--build-from-source" I hadn't thought about that and I suspect you are right. Although I lack recent exposure to it and I can certainly recall getting very annoyed by it, I have to say that my experience with Gentoo's Portage/emerge is by far the least unpleasant as dealing with package managers goes.