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Comment by protomyth | Hacker News Reader

Yeah, macports still works fine. It has an equivalent to the OpenBSD flavors and does versioning fine. The only pain point is OS upgrades.

And the fact that it "needs" Xcode installed.

It does not, it does need the "command line tools" installed. Certain ports require full Xcode but not too many.

If my pre-coffee memory is correct, Macports only needs command-line tools for XCode.

    xcode-select --install

That said, MacPorts is often opinionated, e.g. they package certain versions of some software and not others.

I just said what's on the "Installing MacPorts" section of the site: https://www.macports.org/install.php

> 1. Install Xcode and the Xcode Command Line Tools