I recently got back into MacPorts after irreparably banging up my Homebrew installation *again* – no I don't remember how, and my puttering is the sort of constant chaos that most folks will not need to worry about on a single user machine. Homebrew's reasonable defaults are fine for most.
But for me? I love the way MacPorts approaches optional package variants. They're summarized in `port info PACKAGE` when present, `port variants PACKAGE` describes them, and `port install PACKAGE +VARIANT` applies them.
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I recently got back into MacPorts after irreparably banging up my Homebrew installation *again* – no I don't remember how, and my puttering is the sort of constant chaos that most folks will not need to worry about on a single user machine. Homebrew's reasonable defaults are fine for most.
But for me? I love the way MacPorts approaches optional package variants. They're summarized in `port info PACKAGE` when present, `port variants PACKAGE` describes them, and `port install PACKAGE +VARIANT` applies them.
Good stuff.
Knitting or drawing, depending on the weather and my mood.