Homebrew (mostly?) uses glue code around installing dependencies and doing the ./configure && make && make install dance with sane settings for your environment

Homebrew (mostly?) uses glue code around installing dependencies and doing the ./configure && make && make install dance with sane settings for your environment. It's one-liner, low-hassle installation from source. You're not relying on anyone to be timely/trustworthy about packaging binaries for you.