[haykuro]

I switched to MacPorts after becoming tired of Brew tainting my filesystem.

MacPorts keeps things clean in /opt/.

https://www.macports.org/

https://saagarjha.com/blog/2019/04/26/thoughts-on-macos-pack...

[stadeschuldt]

Nowadays Homebrew keeps its stuff under /opt/homebrew/

[Hamuko]

Only if you have an ARM64 Mac. x86 still use the old path.

[jwells89]

I used MacPorts back in the 00s and early 10s but switched to Homebrew when it came out because it was less hassle.

Wanted to give it another shot with my latest clean OS install, but wound up installing Homebrew again due to broken packages on MacPorts. Probably should’ve tried to contribute by fixing those packages but didn’t have the time or mental energy available at that point in time.

[pasc1878]

How is it less hassle.

Installation is similar just a standard mac install. apps are the same.

The only difference is that Homebrew gets confused if you install your code or another build in /usr/local oh and Homebrew forces you to use non standard permissions on /usr/local