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People don't really dislike Macports, they just like shiny new things on github.


Homebrew isn't exactly new


Homebrew was new 5 years ago when a whole new generation of Mac-using front end developers discovered the command-line (and git, and tmux…). MacPorts worked perfectly well but hey! how can an old tcl-based, svn-using package manager compete with a new ruby-based package manager that's on GitHub?




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