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On the other hand, actually trying to use MacPorts when one is accustomed to package managers like apt is an exercise in extreme patience.



Interestingly, I feel the opposite: Homebrew acts much more like a binary distribution service than a package manager.


Those don't seem to be opposing things - you expect your package distribution tool to be effectively curl and tarballs, the other person expects more complex behavior options and dislikes the absence of them.


(I use MacPorts)


Why?




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