I'm used to Debian and BSD style package managements, and Macports
always seemed slow, a lbit clunky and out of date compared to those
others (though obviously respect to macport maintainers for doing it).
 When a program is not available on homebrew I usually install it from
source, though obviously the right course would then be to package it
for homebrew, I'm told that's pretty easy.
but maybe this is a discussion for another mailing list :)

2010/9/8 Une Bñ×ue <unbewusst.sein / google.com.invalid>:
> elise huard <huard.elise / gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> on Mac OS X you could use the homebrew package manager, it's easy to
>> install and to use, I don't use macports anymore.
>
> Why did you stop using MacPorts ?
> I have to look about that...
>
>> http://github.com/mxcl/homebrew
>> libxml installed with homebrew:
>>
>> brew info libxml2
>> libxml2 2.7.7
>> http://xmlsoft.org
>> /usr/local/Cellar/libxml2/2.7.7 (293 files, 12M)
>> http://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/commits/master/Library/Formula/libxml2.rb
>
> thanks a lot 4 your answer !
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