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Macports. It works and does what I need it to do. I switched to Mac from Linux, and with that background it was unnerving to see a system deliberately written to install non-root-owned files in /usr, so I ruled Homebrew out. I've always found it puzzling that people ask whether anyone "still" uses Macports, as though it is some decrepit thing. Homebrew is the one that seems strange to me.

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My thoughts exactly.

I'm a daily linux user, but occasionally some job requires me to use a Mac. Every time I see some OSX tool that starts with the premise of "just go ahead and `sudo chown` a system location and then curl this script into a `sudo bash` pipe" I just think to myself, if they care so little about security to not get the easy stuff right, can I really expect them to nail the hard stuff?

Usually not. I'll have to give Macports a try. As I understand it, it's an implementation/port of the BSD ports system, so I'd expect it to have a more solid foundation.

I switched to MacPorts from Fink (RIP). It feels about the same as using pkg on a modern FreeBSD box. Pros compared to Homebrew: doesn't litter symlinks everywhere, behaves the way you expect a package manager to. Cons: Not as cool™, tends to have less frequently updated packages.

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