I'm already using Homebrew for a couple of things, Is it problematic to use Homebrew and MacPorts side by side?

[Mojca Miklavec]

Dear Gerben,

On Sat, 10 Aug 2019 at 00:44, Gerben Wierda wrote:
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> See subject.

If you must do it, install HomeBrew to a location other than
/usr/local, make sure that you don't have MacPorts in PATH when
building HB packages from source (not sure if that's still a thing,
they are moving to binary-only), and ideally don't have HB in path
when building for MacPorts, even though MacPorts should usually be
immune to that (unless you have HB in /usr/local, in which case you
are "screwed by definition" and should not expect anything to work
correctly; https://saagarjha.com/blog/2019/04/26/thoughts-on-macos-package-managers/).

Mojca

PS: on MacPorts TeX Live works at least all the way down to 10.5 PPC
;), while HB fetches the few gigabytes from MacTeX page which strictly
only supports the last three OSes. That's a pretty good approximation
of different approaches both projects are taking.
https://ports.macports.org/port/texlive-bin