Hacker News Reader

I have always found MacPorts as the best way to manage tooling.

All packages and dependencies are installed under /opt/.

The consistent pathing is the only sane way to manage tooling.

Homebrew also installs everything under /opt/ on aarch64. Pretty convenient when you want to nuke it and start fresh.

I had thought Homebrew's purpose was to leverage Apple's bundled what not. I haven't looked at Homebrew in over a decade.

It may have started that way but now it is used to install and manage applications and it makes it really easy to do so. There is even a Linux version of homebrew now

Reply on news.ycombinator.com