running macports along with homebrew

[Ken Cunningham]

> Besides missing ports and updated versions, what appeals to me from homebrew is cask (I have to read its documentation though), which could even install macports. 

FYI, it's actually not hard to write a portfile to install a binary, and it's useful in some cases. Here's one I wrote <https://github.com/kencu/LionPorts/blob/master/devel/qt5-qtcreator/Portfile>.

But MacPorts so far has explicitly stated they are not interested in getting into this line of software package management at present.

Ken