Homebrew then keeps track of what has been installed, what is using it, and where it is located. With this package manager, the source or binaries are pulled down with their requirements met. But best of all, Homebrew is clean, with everything kept in its own sandbox in /usr/local. Also, everything is owned by a regular user, meaning there is no need to use sudo. The syntax is very straightforward, it's fast, the packages are well-maintained and up to date, and it leverages more of macOS's default libraries instead of redundantly installing new ones. There are a few package managers for macOS such as Macports and Nix, but I prefer Homebrew. If I had a package manager, all of this work would be handled for me. To do so, I would have to remove the software from my machine, check to see which libraries are required in the latest version, and repeat the process over again - then check some to see if I have dependencies that are no longer in use (hopefully I've been tracking what I've installed in some sort of list).
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