[homosaur]

I somewhat disagree with homebrew being thrown in with Fink and Macports. The benefit to homebrew is that it doesn't require having package maintainers to babysit packages and make sure the binaries work and are updated. You basically just take the raw source and someone throws a patch on it. It's actually a thousand times better because you don't have to worry about compiling binaries that work on everyone else's systems no matter what crazy config they have.

[DeepDuh]

Well I didn't say it's the same kind of architecture. For the end user it serves the same purpose however.

[homosaur]

What I was trying to get at is that those systems were unsustainable and I can see homebrew developing into a legitimate "default" package manager that is infinitely maintainable rather than Fink/Macports which were simply shims that were doomed to fail by their architecture.