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Macports to Homebrew back in uh, 2013ish, maybe? Macports had broken multiple times in a year, under totally ordinary operation (nothing weird, just installing
by yamtaddle 4y ago
Macports to Homebrew back in uh, 2013ish, maybe?
Macports had broken multiple times in a year, under totally ordinary operation (nothing weird, just installing and uninstalling packages without doing anything that ought to be risky). A couple times I'd decided it was easier to just delete its entire directory and start over. Big rpm-hell vibes from the bad old days.
Switched to Homebrew. It's broken a couple times in a decade or so, only on OS upgrades. Easy fixes. I like the sudo-free package management. I like that it lets me manage a lot more of my software than Macports did (bigger selection, and "casks" for commercial software, which are now integrated into the main UI so that's not even some extra thing to learn anymore—it feels like being back on Gentoo with a good binary package cache)