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!?"

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