[msluyter]

There is a tool we use at work (rpmbuild, I believe) that's not available via homebrew and only through macports. It's a nightmare, because if you install macports, it interferes with brew (or at least, brew will complain a lot). I've taken to running a VM in lieu of macports.

[weaksauce]

Why not just make your own formula?

The format is really simple and powerful.

https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/blob/master/Library/For...

More complex example:

https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/blob/6a72fa26aa49ee5c2b...

Edit:

If that's the only reason you can't use homebrew just, you can just tap another cask with it in there(or whatever they are calling that process).

https://github.com/avalanche123/homebrew-rpmbuild

[cal2]

Hah, that sounds really, really painful. Wouldn't you take to finding a way to compiling it yourself or committing a Formula for it instead of installing MacPorts? But if a VM works, don't fix what isn't broken, I guess. (Biochemistry is my day job, so forgive me if I'm missing an obvious detail of full-time development).

[D4AHNGM]

https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/blob/master/Library/For...