@swaggboi Is Homebrew still a thing?
I really liked it when it all started, everything was built from source then and they had something like USE-flags in Gentoo's Portage. There even was a backport to 10.4/10.5 — Tigerbrew and I used that.
Then they've made precompiled binaries a priority and gave up on flags and I gave up on using Macs 🤭

@m0xee Fair enough, I built a lot of stuff from source when I used Slackware and did enjoy being able to customize every package. Sometimes I'd add shit I want, sometimes I'd actually strip features out to save myself dependencies.

I have used brew to compile stuff when the M1 was released and that was my only option, but that was out of sheer necessity. Once the ARM packages were released I switched to those. My Mac I don't generally like to 'tinker' with like I do my Linux machines (this one being an Intel one work assigned me)

@swaggboi
>strip features out to save myself dependencies
Yes, that is exactly what I did most of the time. ffmpeg in Homebrew in particular had some weird defaults that brought in a lot of dependencies and I was trying to avoid that.
>I don't generally like to 'tinker' with
That's the philosophy I try to follow — if the OS already has some means to do it, I'd rather use those, but I just can't live without some things like youtube-dl and ffmpeg.

@swaggboi
I hate using browser to watch Youtube-videos and prefer ffmpeg to any GUI-tool if I need to trim or downscale video — so easy once you learn the syntax. And mpv was the best video player for Mac OS X at the time.
Of course, you can get those as .pkg-files, but with Homebrew, you can update those easily and you can rollback to the old version if something goes wrong. So why not?

@m0xee I use youtube-dl too, usually for tutorials because i often need to watch them offline