MacPorts vs. HomeBrew (2011)

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Much of this is no longer relevant, with homebrew generally being the dominant player. Homebrew no longer takes over /usr/local but installs to /opt/homebrew, for example.

Only on Apple Silicon I believe.

I believe you're correct, but how relevant are Intel Macs today or if you feel they are, how relevant do you believe they'll stay? The last was released in 2020 or 2021, ya?

I’m probably the wrong person to ask as I have a 1998 PowerMac G3 at home running Rhapsody.

But as long as the Intel Macs are getting OS updates + a few years would be my guess.

There are a lot of people with expensive computers that still work great out there not to mention all the Mac Minis out there doing goodness knows what.

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