[ksherlock]

I used macports through two or three upgrades before switching to home-brew last year. Switching was one of the best decisions I ever made. In terms of MacOS package managers -- in the grand scheme of things it's not really a big deal. First world problems, right?

MacPorts is very, umm, opinionated. And doesn't seem to trust anything outside of itself. And has some weird opinions, too.

Example: For some reason, svn is a dependency for nmap. Forgot those gravity waves, the next nobel prize belongs to whoever can figure out why a network scanner depends on an obsolete version control system. So macports installs a shiny new version of svn. Which doesn't play nice with the svn that Xcode uses. Overtime I run (macport) svn from the command line it tells me to upgrade my repository, which breaks the Xcode svn.

[tjl]

This kind of stuff is why I abandoned MacPorts. In many cases, I can get by with the system software and I don't need MacPorts to install a duplicate of something. I found that it was taking up a lot of space on my drive. Given that my main drives are relatively small SSDs, I appreciate that Homebrew doesn't require that I switch to a different version of a system tool in many cases.

The worst offender for MacPorts was TeX. I had an official install the latest version from TeX Live and MacPorts wanted to install a second version of TeX. I think they fixed it so you can use a TeX Live version, but it was definitely an issue.

[EvanPlaice]

For the window manager, Hyperdock supports snap to half (top/bottom or left/right) and quarter screen. Mission control can be used for virtual desktops.

I use ctrl-left and ctrl-right to switch virtual desktops. Can't remember if that's the default or if I used custom keybinding. There are a bunch of other window management keybindings that can be found in the OSX System Preferences.

[draebek]

Looks like Subversion is required by nmap-update, part of nmap. http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/nmap-update.1.html