This might not answer your question completely, but here's a thread from the last time I recall this discussion happening: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=

This might not answer your question completely, but here's a thread from the last time I recall this discussion happening: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8402542 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8402542 It's been a while since I used MacPorts, but I imagine there is some benefit to using the same packaging system between OSs and not having all package descriptions as executable ruby scripts.