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I did look at nix, but was less than enthusiastic about how complex[1] the software is. If I could, I would probably prefer gnu guix - but AFAIK it is unlikely to ever support running on macos - and is similarly complex (build daemon needed to run in background).

I'm also sad that pkgsrc seems to be abandoned wrt binary builds for macos - I could at least not find correct gpg keys for verifying the archives listed at: https://pkgsrc.joyent.com/install-on-macos/

Perhaps it's workable as a build-from-source package manager.

For now, it seems that macports have most of what I need - with less complexity than nix, and a better handling of upgrades than brew.

Does appear that brew moves faster, eg: https://trac.macports.org/ticket/65922 (i briefly tried a local build, but ran into dependency problems with libvterm that I didn't manage to resolve - there's a 0.3 [2] tarball, but the build system for neovim wasn't happy and kept finding 0.1.4 after it was uninstalled in favour of 0.3).

[1] https://nixos.org/manual/nix/stable/installation/installing-...

[2] https://www.leonerd.org.uk/code/libvterm/