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by JTyQZSnP3cQGa8B 622 days ago
MacPorts is a great alternative, also way older but never has been as successful as Homebrew.
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zdw 622 days ago
Second recommendation for MacPorts

It predates Homebrew by a bit and is under Apple's http://www.macosforge.org umbrella of OSS projects, so as close to 1st party support as you can get.

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gkoller 622 days ago
MacPorts rocks. No ports breaking when upgrading MacOS as can (or could,not sure if that's still an issue) with Brew.
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skydhash 622 days ago
Third one for macports. It's more sane, at least for multi users support (I create an user for each contract work)
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iforgotmysocks 622 days ago
It seems like Apple also closely work with Homebrew - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41708046#41711168
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quesera 622 days ago
MacPorts is great!

Another excellent alternative is pkgsrc: https://pkgsrc.smartos.org/install-on-macos/

I've used pkgsrc on SmartOS/illumos and NetBSD for many years, but this is my first time using it on macOS -- about 18 months now, and all experiences positive!

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zombot 622 days ago
Homebrew is really the worst of all the options on macOS, I wonder how it became so popular in the first place.
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