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I have everything installed in ~/Homebrew and have had no problems.

I really wanted to keep liking Macports, but I got sick of having to install a new perl just to install git, among many examples. The kicker for me was installing pandoc; Macports wanted to download and compile a new GHC, refusing to recognize the one on my system. I let it run for 3 hours and finally killed the install and looked for a better way to do things.

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Perl and GHC are the two packages I've had the most problems with as well. Some other languages seem to have a foo_select package which will allow you to switch the primary version, but 'perl5' seems fixed at 5.8.something, which is pretty horrible.

There's a ticket with a lot of activity at http://trac.macports.org/ticket/16830 but afaik there's still no easy way to stop it trying to rip out your new perl 5.10 without manually fixing deps everywhere.

GHC I just installed from a binary package :-)

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