> I'm also impressed by the focus of the maintainers and their willingness (really, enthusiasm) for saying no and cutting features. We need more of that in the

> I'm also impressed by the focus of the maintainers and their willingness (really, enthusiasm) for saying no and cutting features. We need more of that in the programming field. Homebrew is unashamedly solely for running the standard configuration of the newest version of well-behaved programs, which covers at least 90% of my use cases. I use Nix when I want something complicated or nonstandard. I wish I could say I've had better experiences as a result of this attitude. The problem is the assumption that the latest software will always be an improvement, and not introduce any new problems, which is simply not true, especially on OSX. OSX has become really unstable over the last few years. If you use your computer to make money, then it is in your best interest to stay at least a version behind, and do your homework before any major OS update. Obviously, you should still stay current with security updates. I think I could have been forgiven for not wanting to update to High Sierra when there were severe issues with graphics card drivers, data corruption, and anyone could log as root without a password. Not wanting to use the latest version of OSX is not an edge case. So Brew constantly nudging me to roll the dice and update is really unhelpful. Brew itself has broken on updates more times than I can count. I don't see why it even bothers to do things like tell you that a package you want was removed, without offering an easy way to install it. It has gotten so bad that I have had to write helper scripts just to make it usable.