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The apt user experience is terrible compared with brew.

• Nursie 10y ago
  How so? The interface seems more or less identical to me. I'm not going to deny it's good and brings great stuff to the Mac, I'm just not seeing the advantages.
  • bm5k 10y ago
    Other than "in every way possible"? The only thing that is as easy in apt as brew is installing packages. Searching, getting info about a package, updating the list of available packages, are all much easier with homebrew.
    • saurik 10y ago
      A reasonable thing to do would be to decide what the deficiencies are and first try to talk to the developers of APT about fixing them, and then as a second (lesser) option potentially deciding to make a higher-level wrapper or supplementary tool which helps these use cases. A totally unreasonable thing to do would be to attempt to replace the entire APT ecosystem with a different tool.
    • kasabali 10y ago
      > Searching apt search .... > getting info about a package apt show <package> > updating the list of available packages apt update > are all much easier with homebrew You gotta be kidding me