Thanks for contributing an answer to Super User! Please be sure to answer the question.Provide details and share your research! But avoid . Asking for help, clarification, or responding to other answers. Apple Footer. This site contains user submitted content, comments and opinions and is for informational purposes only. Apple may provide or recommend responses as a possible solution based on the information provided; every potential issue may involve several factors not detailed in the conversations captured in an electronic forum and Apple can therefore provide no guarantee as to the There is only one little catch: if you have installed ruby gems that depend on libs from your MacPorts directory, you have to recompile them. I had to recompile my rmagick gem because it used the now deleted ImageMagick from MacPorts. Buyer's Guide. Installation Guide. Forum. The Build Buying Advice MacPorts vs. Homebrew - which do you prefer? Thread starter nobodynose; Start date Jan 4, 2016; Homebrew or MacPorts? Better as in integrated with the standard Mac OS MacPorts, formerly called DarwinPorts, [1] is a package management system that simplifies the installation of software on the Mac OS X and Darwin operating systems. It is a free / open source software project to simplify installation of other free/open source software. DarwinPorts (also known as MacPorts which mimics the FreeBSD ports architecture. Due to it's heritage (OpenDarwin) chances are that most of the DarwinPorts ports will run without problem on Mac OS X Intel. I'm currently using MacOS High Sierra 10.13.5. I would like to uninstall MacPorts on my macbook. Based on the instructions here: https://guide.macports.org/chunked MacPorts, formerly called DarwinPorts, [1] is a free/open source software project to simplify installation of other free/open source software on the Mac OS X and Darwin operating systems. "The MacPorts team is pleased to announce the release of MacPorts v1.5.A major achievement