<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 2021-1-27 02:57 , Andrew Janke wrote:</div><div>I didn't know that! I must be behind the times with the state of MacPorts. Thanks for the update.</div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div>About a decade behind -- the buildbot went live in 2011. ;)</div><div>- Josh</div></blockquote><br><div>I see this misconception <i>all over the place</i>, that Homebrew is fast because it uses prebuilt binaries, whereas MacPorts makes you wait while software is compiled. It can't <i>just</i> be due to outdated information, if we're more than a decade out from when the buildbot went live.</div><div><br></div><div>I know it's just one data point, but I thought the replies I got on this Hacker News comment today were interesting. I can understand why he/she got confused, and I wonder if there's anything MacPorts could do to make it clearer. <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26678498">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26678498</a></div></body></html>