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

[Carlo Tambuatco]

Been using HB and MP side by side for the past year and a half...had zero
problems with it. I mainly use homebrew for stuff I either can't find on
MP, or that has been problematic for installation or upgrading on MP
eg:emacs, sbcl, etc...I find HB to be more flexible than MP in finding and
installing the formulae that I need that MP just doesn't have. That being
said, I don't think there's any overlap between the formulae I've installed
using HB and the ports I've installed in MP, except for ImageMagick, and a
duplicate version of python37, which HB conveniently installed in
/usr/local/bin/python3, so there's no conflict between HB and MP. I have a
version of emacs installed with HB that works quite well with a version of
gnuplot I installed on MP. The ImageMagick installed by HB is a dependency
for the emacs-plus formula, and the ImageMagick installed by MP is a
dependency of the Octave language. My HB is installed in /usr/local and MP
is installed in /opt/local, and they seem to live peacefully side by side.
I've experienced zero compatibility issues as of yet.

On Fri, Aug 9, 2019 at 10:15 PM Dmitri Zaitsev <zaitsev at maths.tcd.ie> wrote:

> That would interest me too but I have the opposite experience --
> I left HB in the exact same (broken) state as it ended up with after using
> it for years (with increasingly broken experience) and MacPorts just worked
> for me, to the point that it installed packages that would break if
> installing from their official sources.
>
> Could you illustrate by an example how the HB can affect them?
>
> On Saturday, August 10, 2019, Mark Anderson <mark at macports.org> wrote:
>
>> It's possible. But I have had nothing but trouble with it, so much so
>> that I just went about fixing the macport port.
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 9, 2019 at 6:44 PM Gerben Wierda <gerben.wierda at rna.nl>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> See subject.
>>>
>>> Gerben Wierda
>>> Chess and the Art of Enterprise Architecture
>>> <http://enterprisechess.com/>
>>> Mastering ArchiMate <http://masteringarchimate.com/>
>>> Architecture for Real Enterprises
>>> <https://www.infoworld.com/blog/architecture-for-real-enterprises/> at
>>> InfoWorld
>>> On Slippery Ice <https://eapj.org/on-slippery-ice/> at EAPJ
>>>
>>>
>
> --
> Dmitri Zaitsev
> School of Mathematics
> Trinity College Dublin
>
> WWW:  http://www.maths.tcd.ie/~zaitsev/
>
>
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