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In theory, homebrew is inferior. In practice, I find homebrew is actually easier to use than apt/yum. For example, installing fonts or (de)installing GUI applic
by guitarbill 10y ago
In theory, homebrew is inferior. In practice, I find homebrew is actually easier to use than apt/yum. For example, installing fonts or (de)installing GUI applications is simple and clean. brewfiles are awesome for machine setups. PPAs do make apt as powerful, but there's not always one for the thing you want. With homebrew, you can create your own "casks" (definitions) and tell homebrew to load them from e.g. github.
- gotofritz 10y agoIt's all great until some mysterious happens (maybe because you tried to install your version of ruby or XCode didn't like something) and then you have to start messing with brew doctor etc and you know you are doomed. But when it works it's great
- deleted 10y ago[deleted]