usage numbers for macports vs. homebrew?

[Brandon Allbery]

On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 1:36 PM, Arno Hautala <arno at alum.wpi.edu> wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 6:42 AM, Clemens Lang <cal at macports.org> wrote:
> >  - homebrew doesn't try as hard as MacPorts to make builds reproducible.
> If you install vim, it'll use the first python available. When that's
> system python it uses that, if it's homebrew python it'll use that (and if
> its MacPorts python, well you get the idea)
>
> I'm pretty sure they consider this a strength. "I already have Python!
> Why is MacPorts trying to install a new version!?"


They *used* to consider that a feature, and are still slowly changing
things over; they've learned the hard way why nobody else works that way.

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