running macports along with homebrew

[Michael]

> I think we should look at ways in which MacPorts is harder to use and see if we can address those.

I'd say that being able to install software without having to use sudo would be my number one.
My number two would be an easier way to deal with multiple variants, especially the whole X11 versus quartz  (GTK I think is the big factor here).
If there is a number three, it's the multiple versions of Perl and Python.