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People switched to it because MacPorts was constantly broken and took ages to install new packages due to compiling everything.
by stouset 3y ago
People switched to it because MacPorts was constantly broken and took ages to install new packages due to compiling everything.
- amake 3y agoMacPorts has provided binaries for many years at this point.
- stouset 3y agoIt has, but by then they'd already lost many users.
- runlevel1 3y agoHomebrew built almost everything from source back when everyone was already migrating to it. Fink and MacPorts being frequently broken was really the big driver, IMO. As for why Homebrew packages seemed to be broken less often, I can only speculate. At least one big benefit it had was being on GitHub. A lot of folks were already familiar with how to cut a PR. Not so with how to submit a Portfile patch to the MacPorts Trac.