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Re:Back on Linux (after one year of Apple and OS X) by brown9-2 on Monday February 13, 2012 @10:21AM (#3585879)
Why are solutions like Homebrew and MacPorts insisting on compiling the packages locally?

So that an OS upgrade, in which Apple tends to include arbitrary upgrades to system libraries (or the Ruby/Python etc version), doesn't break whatever you installed with Homebrew/MacPorts.

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