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Simply because there isn't an up-to-date package management system that provides binary packages. Typing "brew install <whatever>" is a million times easier tha

by spicyj 17y ago

Simply because there isn't an up-to-date package management system that provides binary packages. Typing "brew install <whatever>" is a million times easier than searching out the software package's website and hunting around for a binary package that's for your OS version.

blasdel 17y ago
...and that works together with all the dependencies you've also installed, and the set of configure --options they were built with. It's also a strong guarantee that if the package is built any different than the upstream default, you know exactly what changes are being made, since they happen on your machine.