MacPorts has active support. Join [email protected] and report your issue, you get instruction from members of the listserv within minutes. Report a bug, and it is routed and assigned within the hour, usually solved within days. Sometimes bugs take a little longer to solve, but generally they always are. In regards to Homebrew support, what are you referring to? I can't find any active Homebrew support, just the FAQ which details what isn't supported and gives lame reasons why.