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by jasonwatkinspdx
1960 days ago
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I used MacPorts before Homebrew was a thing, and had plenty of experience with bsd ports going back to the late 90s. Homebrew was just straight up better, no doubt about it. It wasn't "noobs," "good timing," or "tricky marketing." They were just better, even if still not what these posters desire. |
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No offense but we are talking about a "package manager" which:
- complained when you installed things in /use/local (where they belong) not managed by itself;
- had a flag to install packages somewhere else which broken half of the packages because they were so poorly written and no one was checking;
- messed with the permission of the file system for no good reason wahtsoever;
- would fail to properly update its own package list if you waited too long because the way they used git was broken beyond belief.
As I never had any of these issues with MacPorts, I might suggest you have a very low ceiling for what you call better. It pains me so much that you have to use Homebrew if you want to have recent packages.