Sorry if you have that impression. If you’re interested in a constructive discussion, feel free to give an example and tell me how you think we should handle it better in the future.

You proved yourselves to be untrustworthy by opting everyone into analytics using Google and hiding the notice in lots of terminal output. You guys doubled down on that by refusing to reconsider, saying unless you were a contributor to the project, your opinion was irrelevant. Mike McQuaid's responses as a representative of the project were user hostile, all while he tried to paint himself as the victim of abuse over the matter.

If you want to regain my trust, remove the analytics function, swear off such things forever, and expel Mike McQuaid from the project. But I doubt that will happen, so MacPorts it is. And I'll encourage everyone I know to use it rather than Homebrew.

Again, sorry you feel that way about Homebrew’s analytics. I think we’ve learned a lot from our mistakes here. If the way the analytics notice is implemented now is still a no-go for you, I can’t blame you for moving on. MacPorts is a fine package manager, too.

One thing I still want to point out though: whatever we do, we do it in good faith and with the best of intentions for both our users and ourselves.

The only gripe I have ever had with Homebrew is the /usr/local "do yourself a favor" prefix, due to its collision with so many 3rd-party installers. But that's now been fixed.