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> fighting Homebrew I switched to MacPorts when Homebrew moved on from macOS Mojave... now I wish I had done so much sooner!

• smoldesu 5y ago
  MacPorts is pretty unstable (in my experience). Felt like 2011-era Arch Linux all over again... Honestly, Nix is the only package manager I really like on Mac.
  • password4321 5y ago
    Appreciate the anecdata! Have they straightened out the issue(s) with a read-only root directory, and installation / uninstall? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30917354#30918593 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30917354#30918593 > seems to be an issue of macOS and the root dir being read-only > Took me a month to finally remove Nix from my macOS https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/6206#issuecomment-1059381471 https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/6206#issuecomment-105938...
    • smoldesu 5y ago
      I believe that's fixed upstream. Afaik, those issues stem from some strange FileVault/APFS inconsistencies, and have patches coming to fix it (in it's current incarnation). I don't dev on Macs unless I have to though, so I really couldn't say for sure.