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Can you imagine using OSX as a development box without homebrew?

• nosequel 13y ago
  No, but homebrew doesn't break things up into an insane number of pieces either. In the context of this blog post, Riak on homebrew is a single package.
• skybrian 13y ago
  Yes. Never used homebrew. Not sure I'm missing anything.
• hosay123 13y ago
  Yes, and my /usr/local isn't a freaking .git repository. Homebrew, bikeshedding what MacPorts achieved a decade previous (and getting it horribly wrong) since 2009
  • randallsquared 13y ago
    If by "achieved", you mean "aspired to". MacPorts never actually seemed to correctly build the things I needed. Of course, I gave up before 2009.
• schmonz 13y ago
  Sure, pkgsrc has made it easy to manage third-party software on Mac OS X for over a decade. Lots of other platforms too, with root or without. Homebrew is cool, but I'm pretty happy about being able to use the same package manager everywhere I go.
• malkia 13y ago
  MacPorts all the way, since it's sane.