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How well does macports and home brew play together on the same system these days?

I used to use ports back in the days and appreciated it coming from FreeBSD previously but at some point most things I wanted were simply only available in brew, at that time brew and ports didn’t play well together on the same system so sometime around SL/Lion I switched to brew completely.

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Default prefix of Homebrew is now /opt/homebrew on macOS on ARM, which should not conflict with MacPorts anymore.

For macOS on Intel, MacPorts does not play well with Homebrew because it took /usr/local, so ports built from source might use Homebrew files and break.

I see so as an Intel user I'd better stay away from mac ports if I want to use software only published on brew. I probably won't buy a new computer in the coming 5 years, so arm isn't relevant for me at this moment. But good to know for the future.

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