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My experience is quite the opposite. Lots of missing packages in brew compared to debian. And brew has been nothing but trouble for all the devs in my team. It
by strictfp 10y ago
My experience is quite the opposite. Lots of missing packages in brew compared to debian. And brew has been nothing but trouble for all the devs in my team. It keeps messing up /usr/local permissions for some reason. And if you don't update brew frequently it will bork itself. Apt-get or better yet aptitude is rock solid.
- rocket69 10y agoThey are more solid, but never up to date with new bits, so you're stuck managing your own curated list of ppa's.
- stephenr 10y agoApt is as up to date as the repo you point it at. It's pretty common to use Debian stable and vendor/community repos for specific packages you want more up-to-date packages of.