brew is homebrew and as a new mac user you will want and adore it. http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/ http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/ its a package manager, bu

brew is homebrew and as a new mac user you will want and adore it. http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/ http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/ its a package manager, but more than that it has scripts to handle the mac's strange edge cases. so many packages wasted so many hours of my life before homebrew took over.