homebrew will or will appear to get a user to their desired state of “I just need X installed” faster than MacPorts.
Their users simply don’t care about what MacPorts does: it isn’t that homebrew has a feature, it’s that homebrew won’t seem to get in the way. On Mar 18, 2014, at 13:36, Arno Hautala <[email protected]> wrote: >> - homebrew doesn't try as hard as MacPorts to make builds reproducible. If >> you install vim, it'll use the first python available. When that's system >> python it uses that, if it's homebrew python it'll use that (and if its >> MacPorts python, well you get the idea) > > I'm pretty sure they consider this a strength. "I already have Python! > Why is MacPorts trying to install a new version!?" _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
