I used MacPorts for years and eventually gave up and abandoned it for Homebrew. It simply became too common that I would come across a project which had directi

I used MacPorts for years and eventually gave up and abandoned it for Homebrew. It simply became too common that I would come across a project which had directions for setting things up with Homebrew and when I went to try to do it using MacPorts a required package would be missing, outdated, or broken. I think the world sort of moved on from MacPorts and honestly I think it's a few years too late for big OpenSource package system to come to Mac OS. I think that Apple is on a long term course that excludes (or perhaps confines or quarantines) Open Source. I also think that package management is really behind the curve in a computer science sense and a 'next, next-generation package manager' needs to come about.