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I have only ever used macports, but my first and only MacBook was salvaged from bigcorp IT, and is a 2009 model so homebrew is too new for it. I’ve dabbled in

by mikrl 2y ago

I have only ever used macports, but my first and only MacBook was salvaged from bigcorp IT, and is a 2009 model so homebrew is too new for it. I’ve dabbled in BSD before and I can definitely see the correspondence between Macports and freeBSD ports. I assume homebrew tries to be more similar to apt or yum.

michaelsbradley 2y ago
Yes, one of several nice things about MacPorts is the continued support for older macs, macOS/OSX versions.
- wpm 2y ago
  MacPorts is a godsend on older Macs. Takes forever to compile stuff on a G3 though :)
  - mikrl 2y ago
    How did people compile emacs on 2 cores in the old days? :O