Friendly talk

[Clemens Lang]

On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 08:24:38PM -0400, David Strubbe wrote:
> What the advantages and disadvantages does Homebrew have with respect
> to MacPorts?

I think some of the advantages of MacPorts are:
 - Requires superuser privs to install software into users' $PATH (yes,
   that's a feature).
 - privilege separation and (since 2.2) sandboxing so rouge installation
   routines can not remove your /usr or wreak havoc in your $HOME.
 - rev-upgrade: dynamic linking consistency check
 - automatically generated binary archives, where distributable
 - database of installed files (does homebrew have this by now?)
 - trace mode: a virtual chroot to achieve reproducible builds (although
   that one still needs some work).

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Clemens Lang