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I disagree. Package management is a nightmare on Mac--bad enough that I work on a Mint VM at home for my OSS contributions and on a Ubuntu VM at work. This is a

I disagree. Package management is a nightmare on Mac--bad enough that I work on a Mint VM at home for my OSS contributions and on a Ubuntu VM at work. This is a significant consideration for any dev. Note: I know MacPorts exists, and I'm not a fan.

andrewjshults 15y ago
Homebrew (http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/ http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/) is a significant improvement over MacPorts. The formulas also seem to be updated much quicker as well, as far as I can remember from when I last used MacPorts.