On my Mac, I currently install software in at least 8 different ways: pkgsrc, homebrew, GNU stow (for software that is in neither of the first two), gem, pip, d

On my Mac, I currently install software in at least 8 different ways: pkgsrc, homebrew, GNU stow (for software that is in neither of the first two), gem, pip, drag-and-drop to /Applications, running installers, and using the App Store. It is becoming a bit hard to keep track and keeping things updated, but I've found it really is necessary to use all of these. Frequently a package from pkgsrc will not build, so I'll revert to homebrew. If it's not in homebrew, I have to build it manually or find a binary distribution somewhere. On my Arch Linux system, in constrast, everything is installed using the Package Manager or pip.