Re:El Capitan and Homebrew
by ashark on Thursday October 01, 2015 @02:55PM
(#10313686)
I switched after having to blow away my Macports directory and start over four times in the first year I used it due to unrecoverable levels of brokenness. ~4 years of HomeBrew later and the worst I've had to do is `chmod`.
[ Parent
| on HN ]
Having used both, I agree. Homebrew is just better. I have not had to start from scratch with Homebrew. I had to start from scratch multiple times with MacPorts once I had installed a critical mass of conflicting packages.
If you've been using Homebrew for 4 years, you probably missed MacPorts' adoption of binary packages, automatic detection+repair of broken library linking, sandboxing of builds, etc.
That's resolved all of the fragility (and heinous build times) that previously existed.