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>>lostms+(OP)
In comparison, Apple hosted MacPorts, an early OS X package manager, and started to be involved in it directly.

(nowadays MacPorts is not really necessary with Homebrew around, but that’s another thing)

>>shp0ng+eq
Homebrew is recapitulating all of the work that previous package managers have done, while making choices like analytics and stomping on /usr/local by default that others wouldn't consider. I think there's still a place for MacPorts.