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> As a hacker, it's particularly frustrating to feel at the whims of someone else. Isn't this the very definition of what a hacker is - somebody who finds crea

> As a hacker, it's particularly frustrating to feel at the whims of someone else. Isn't this the very definition of what a hacker is - somebody who finds creative ways to get things done with systems they didn't create and don't control. If you are pushing the boundaries of a system, you have to expect that sometimes the underlying system stop supporting you A guarantee that the system you're "hacking" on will always continue to support your customizations in perpetuity as it updates seems to me to be the opposite of the hacker ethos. That's not hacking, that's using a system in a supported manner.

ljm 6y ago
Before going to Windows, I left Homebrew and went back to Macports for a couple of years. It did everything I needed and while you might argue that writing a Ruby formula is easier than packaging something for Macports, it was a feature I never really needed compared to the ability to easily install specific versions of software going as far back as I needed. Much more akin to the Debian approach, but with faster updates for newer versions. But, as a hacker, I agree. If it's not neatly wrapped up for you by a package manager then you're perfectly equipped to pull down a prebuilt binary from a repo or compile it from source. If I felt at the whim of the apt package manager I'd still be complaining about the lack of XDG support in tmux, instead of wget'ing a tarball and doing a good old make && make install.