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		rswail on April 1, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I think Catalina 10.15.4 broke SSH Why don't people use MacPorts instead? I've never had any problems with it. Homebrew wants to screw around in /usr, Macports installs itself in /opt and doesn't interfere with things in the MacOS world. Set your PATH to have /opt/local/{bin,sbin} and everything Just Works.

saila on April 1, 2020 [–]

What is the practical difference between /usr/local and /opt or /opt/local? I don't think macOS puts anything in /usr/local.

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