<i>Installing packages is faster, too, because Homebrew also works hard to avoid package duplication. No more installing yet another version of Perl as a package dependency when you already have a working install of Perl built into OS X. Best of all, Homebrew has a basic philosophy that you shouldn’t have to use sudo to install or manage software on your computer.</i><p>Finally! At last! I hope this takes off, because I've been manually ∂ownloading and compiling everything in order to avoid conflicting versions, redundancy, et. al. that come with Fink and MacPorts.