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Using Both Homebrew and Macports
Hello, I just made the switch from being a life long windows user to getting my first mac, its a Macbook pro m4 16GB RAM. I started to use homebrew and macport. Currently I have python installed from [python.org](http://python.org) . I prefer to use homebrew, however I avoid using brew install for packages that require python as a dependencies. I find that homebrew likes to override my python install when it tries to install python and it creates conflicts with my python install. As a result, I use macports to install packages that requires python as a dependencies, since macports isolates packages installs, it doesn't create conflicts for my python install. However I find macports to be too slow for installing packages. In short I use homebrew for packages that don't require python and i use macports for packages that require python. So should i continue to use both, if someone has a better solution I would gladly appreciate the advice?4
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