I've had only troubles with Homebrew. For example recent upgrade, and the system no longer works, I had to manually clean up folders.
MacPorts seems better to me, after years of fink in the past. I need to build for universal (386/x86_64) for testing purposes, so it fits well for me.
I actually rebuild stuff later myself, since I can't really package stuff and require people to have that in /opt/local/bin or anywhere else, but a local folder to the main app.
(I use the same way cygwin on windows, like macports - I love the tools, the stuff, I test a lot of things, but afterall for things I want to distribute I compile myself, and post binaries).
MacPorts seems better to me, after years of fink in the past. I need to build for universal (386/x86_64) for testing purposes, so it fits well for me.
I actually rebuild stuff later myself, since I can't really package stuff and require people to have that in /opt/local/bin or anywhere else, but a local folder to the main app.
(I use the same way cygwin on windows, like macports - I love the tools, the stuff, I test a lot of things, but afterall for things I want to distribute I compile myself, and post binaries).