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		zdw on Oct 9, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Upgrading Homebrew and avoiding the "failed to ver... Second recommendation for MacPorts It predates Homebrew by a bit and is under Apple's http://www.macosforge.org umbrella of OSS projects, so as close to 1st party support as you can get.

gkoller on Oct 10, 2024 | [–]

MacPorts rocks. No ports breaking when upgrading MacOS as can (or could,not sure if that's still an issue) with Brew.

skydhash on Oct 10, 2024 | | [–]

Third one for macports. It's more sane, at least for multi users support (I create an user for each contract work)

iforgotmysocks on Oct 10, 2024 | [–]

It seems like Apple also closely work with Homebrew - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41708046#41711168

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