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Wow. Thanks for bringing this to my attention. I recently got a new mac and I decided to give brew a spin as my package manager. I was unimpressed with many aspects of the experience- for example, getting weird snarky messages and incorrect advice when I attempted to install texlive- but this seals it.

Back to Macports it is. I'll be sure to tell others about this.

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Been using Brew for as long as i can remember. Most of the message usually require a `brew doctor` or `brew update` command which completely fixes the issue. And i cant even remember the last time i had to do that..

When they brought in brew cask i was completely blown away and i use brew exclusively for installing almost everything on my mac.

I tried macports at first, but bailed out of that after i shot myself in the foot inside the hour. Switched to brew and have never looked back since.

i must be the only person on earth that can't get brew to work right.

every so often i'll try to install something with brew, and it just won't work. the last thing i'm trying to do on planet earth is spend 30 minutes debugging a packager on my workstation (as opposed to on servers, where i do this literally all day long), so i just don't bother.

I have never had a problem with homebrew. I think some people like one or the other better as a preference though.

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