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> Homebrew barely works. I dread messing with it. One of us must be smoking something. I've never had a more reliable/friendly package manager (among apt-get,
by wyager 10y ago
> Homebrew barely works. I dread messing with it.
One of us must be smoking something. I've never had a more reliable/friendly package manager (among apt-get, pacman, macports, pkg_add, yum).
- aptwebapps 10y agoMaybe the experience depends on what packages you install?
- danieldk 10y agoIt is hard to say, because the grandparent says that Homebrew barely works without providing any examples of the problems they have ran into.
- nickbauman 10y agoYeah as long as you're using what everyone else is using and stay "inside the lines" it's OK. But step off into special territory, you're better off on Linux.
- natch 10y agoWild guess: people who keep Xcode and its associated command line tools up to date have smooth experiences. Those who don't, do not.
- wyager 10y agoBrew recently started refusing to install anything if your xcode is out of date, and forces you to wait for a "brew update" if it hasn't updated in 24 hours. It's actually hideously user-unfriendly, but it probably saves the devs a lot of stupid github issues.
- vetinari 10y agoUnless you made the mistake of upgrading to Xcode 8 while staying with El Capitan and then wondering, why nothing works.
- natch 10y agoWhat specifically doesn't work? It's working for me but I would love to have an example of breakage to take to my IT as another reason they should allow the company machines to be updated.
- tbarbugli 10y agoBrew works great most of the times and it is indeed very human friendly. The problem sometimes arises when you need to install something a little bit more exotic than usual (eg. graph-tool was my last case) in that case lot of things can go wrong.