Being a (retired) programmer and sysadmin (although not significantly conversant with Mac-specific languages or APIs), I don't care too much about simple in itself - but the mere existence of Macs (in addition to predating Linux if you include Macs running older versions of classic Mac OS, like System 6 or earlier) suggests that lots of people do.
Agreeing that homebrew has issues, I use it minimally (low single digit number of items). But if it comes down to either using homebrew or doing without or building myself and tracking updates myself (or, I suppose, writing a Portfile, but then I'd be on the hook to maintain it), homebrew doesn't necessarily suck THAT bad; it depends on the specific item > On Jan 25, 2021, at 12:49, William Santos via macports-users > <[email protected]> wrote: > > I’ve never trusted Homebrew. The whole idea of “making it simple” just > doesn’t make sense when you’re modifying your system. You don’t want > “simple.” Simple breaks things. You want foolproof. Homebrew is foolish, > always has been. > > I’m a huge fan of both MacPorts and Fink. I use them exclusivly for enhancing > my systems. > > > >> On Jan 25, 2021, at 8:41 AM, Ken Cunningham >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> homebrew is in shambles. >> >> their long-touted "no-sudo" and "no PATH" advantage from installing into >> /usr/local has been eliminated by Apple as the horrible security threat it >> always was. They have to retool into /opt/homebrew and make 10,000 builds >> respect the build args now. >> >> They stripped out all their universal handling code a few years ago, can't >> put it back, and so can't do the critical universal builds any more. They >> tell everyone universal is wasteful, lipo things manually, and run the >> x86_64 homebrew on Apple Silicon. >> >> So MacPorts, which works great from 10.4 PPC to 11.x arm64, is the place to >> be. >> >> >> >> > >
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