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I used to be a staunch macports evangelist but ended up switching to homebrew. I've found it to be much simpler.

And, as a counter to your experience of not having it mess up a machine, every time you upgrade macOS to the next major version you have to jump through some hoops to get it to play ball again. Painful.

At some point I gave up on the hoops and installed homebrew instead and haven't looked back.

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This exactly mirrors my experience with the two systems.

Well, you can nuke macports just by deleting /opt/local. It's annoying to have to recompile for sure, but at least it's a simple solution.

That does sound simple, but is not the process the macports docs suggest.

You can do the same thing with brew, `/opt/local/brew`

Did you mean /opt/homebrew? For Intel Macs it's /usr/local. You can't just delete it. You give up binary packages if you install it anywhere else.

Ah, yes I did mean `/opt/homebrew` - and yes I know on Intel Macs it works differently, but it can be installed at custom locations for people who still have them.

I stated the problem with custom locations already.

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