Without knocking this tool, which I haven't tried, there seems to be something about the inability of a package manager to stay simple—MacPorts was the simple (

Without knocking this tool, which I haven't tried, there seems to be something about the inability of a package manager to stay simple—MacPorts was the simple (or at least "it just works") replacement for Fink, Homebrew was the simple replacement for MacPorts, ... I don't know what came before Fink, because that's what was used when I first started using macOS. That was under Tiger, relatively early in the OS X days, so maybe Fink was actually the first?