Rainer Müller wrote:

> Somehow the Homebrew community managed to get their ubiquitous marketing
> on almost every software project website. Compare this with the MacPorts
> website, which has not seen any redesign in more than 10 years...
> 
> Although a good package management system should not need to advertise
> itself, as every software would be available without users being told
> where to look – the package manager should be their first choice.

But you need to know about this package manager first then. And be convinced 
into installing and using it. I found out about the existence of package 
managers on Mac (I guess it was Fink for me at the time) through installation 
instructions for some tool I wanted to install.

When I started to maintain some packages for MacPorts I also made an effort to 
do pull requests for the install docs to add instructions for installing via 
MacPorts (for instance [0]). I think this is very important PR for a package 
manager, apart from its own website.

For instance, yesterday I wanted to try out Hugo. It’s available in MacPorts, 
but the Hugo site only mentions Homebrew, binary download and building from 
source as installation options [1]. I think it might pay off if maintainers 
would pay more attention to this.

Nils.

[0] 
https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/current/reference/htmlsingle/#getting-started-macports-cli-installation
[1] https://gohugo.io/getting-started/installing#pick-your-method

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