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MacPorts and Homebrew. Which is better?
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<blockquote data-quote="knightjp" data-source="post: 1793785" data-attributes="member: 33134"><p>In terms of package managers for MacOS, there are about 8, but most users only know about 3 - Fink, Macports & Homebrew.</p><p>According to this link <a href="https://slashdot.org/software/package-managers/mac/" target="_blank">https://www.slant.co/topics/511/~best-mac-package-managers</a>, while Homebrew is the more popular one, MacPorts gets only the #5 slot.. which makes you wonder about the ones that beat it...</p><p>Looking through the list, I wasn't completely impressed with "Nix", "Homebrew-Cask" but "pkgsrc" did catch my eye. I recall reading about it when reading up on BSDs back in the day and I believe that it was the default package manager for NetBSD. I was surprised to see it listed and rank above MacPorts, but can't figure out why it wasn't more commonly used. Being directly linked with one of the BSDs, you would think that it would be first choice.</p><p></p><p>Pkgsrc operates much in the same way as Macports and has around 17000+ packages.. One of the benefits, unlike any of the other well-known packages, you do not need to install Xcode or Xcode command line tools to get it up and running.</p><p>Since I could not decide on MacPorts vs Homebrew, I'm trying out pkgsrc for the moment and I like it thus far.. Its blazing fast in installing packages.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="knightjp, post: 1793785, member: 33134"] In terms of package managers for MacOS, there are about 8, but most users only know about 3 - Fink, Macports & Homebrew. According to this link [URL='https://slashdot.org/software/package-managers/mac/']https://www.slant.co/topics/511/~best-mac-package-managers[/URL], while Homebrew is the more popular one, MacPorts gets only the #5 slot.. which makes you wonder about the ones that beat it... Looking through the list, I wasn't completely impressed with "Nix", "Homebrew-Cask" but "pkgsrc" did catch my eye. I recall reading about it when reading up on BSDs back in the day and I believe that it was the default package manager for NetBSD. I was surprised to see it listed and rank above MacPorts, but can't figure out why it wasn't more commonly used. Being directly linked with one of the BSDs, you would think that it would be first choice. Pkgsrc operates much in the same way as Macports and has around 17000+ packages.. One of the benefits, unlike any of the other well-known packages, you do not need to install Xcode or Xcode command line tools to get it up and running. Since I could not decide on MacPorts vs Homebrew, I'm trying out pkgsrc for the moment and I like it thus far.. Its blazing fast in installing packages. [/QUOTE]
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