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I always thought it was strange how intolerant Homebrew is of users who are not surfing the bleeding edge. I held out using MacPorts for ages, but there came a
by troad 5mo ago
I always thought it was strange how intolerant Homebrew is of users who are not surfing the bleeding edge.
I held out using MacPorts for ages, but there came a point when I just could not reasonably expect to find the software I needed on MacPorts, but could on Homebrew, and so I switched. I wish Homebrew hadn't won that particular mindshare war. Moving from MacPorts to Homebrew felt like downgrading from an actual package manager to a duct-taped shell script.
- ryandrake 5mo agoThe good news is that MacPorts is IMO better than ever. I previously did the MacPorts -> Homebrew switch, but recently moved back and am very happy with MacPorts.
- jonhohle 5mo agoI never moved to Homebrew, and never understood the appeal. It’s refreshing to see people coming back to MacPorts after the last decade.
- stasomatic 5mo agoIf you ever try to install any packages from GH or an indie, you only get brew install/cask instructions. It's game over. Regarding the appeal, this probably exists in Mac Ports, I do not know since you guys reminded me it still existed, but Brewfile lets me provision a new Mac very efficiently.
- troad 5mo agoThat's good to hear, thanks for letting me know. I might check it out again.