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Something has always rubbed me the wrong way about homebrew. I feel like there is something about it that doesn't quite jive with Unix philosophy. It doesn't fe
by asveikau 8y ago
Something has always rubbed me the wrong way about homebrew. I feel like there is something about it that doesn't quite jive with Unix philosophy. It doesn't feel like a Unix tool, vague as that sounds. Assuming ownership of /usr/local as this author complains is along those lines.
It just always seems like between "just get it kinda working" and "work how I expect" it often picks the former.
- SllX 8y agoIt’s a Macintosh tool for Unix users. Or a Unix tool for Macintosh users, can never decide. At least that is how I’ve always explained the weirdness to myself.
- asveikau 8y agoSure, but macports always seemed more unixy. Then there's fink mentioned in the article which was popular long ago which literally was a port of Debian stuff. At some point I was using pkgsrc from NetBSD. So a more Unix person's type of tool exists.
- boshalfoshal 8y agoIt says on the homebrew website that "Homebrew installs packages to their own directory and then symlinks their files into /usr/local." Is this still technically assuming ownership of /usr/local, and if I chose to install homebrew to a more reasonable directory, $HOME/homebrew, for example, what packages would break?