Re: No Bison 3 in untainted macOS installs

[Uxio Prego]

> On 15 Dec 2018, at 17:02, Uxio Prego <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>> On 15 Dec 2018, at 15:20, Hans Åberg <address@hidden> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 15 Dec 2018, at 11:05, Uxio Prego <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Fortunately other projects such as Homebrew allow a
>>> straightforward selection of a cutting edge alternative Bison
>>> under `/usr/local/`, [...]
>> 
>> Also, MacPorts [3] packages tend to be more up-to-date. It is installed in 
>> /opt/, so /usr/local doesn't get cluttered. So it is possible to choose what 
>> one wants, say GCC from MacPorts, and the original Clang from their site in 
>> different builds, especially easy if you use Automake, which admits out of 
>> source tree compilation.
> 
> Actually Homebrew clutters a specific `Cellar/` dir under
> `/usr/local/`, so I see no effective benefit. And Homebrew
> already seems really up to date.

You are right, it clutters /usr/local/ all over the place.
I stand corrected. Thanks.

> 
>> 3. https://www.macports.org