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makes sense for homebrew maybe because homebrew is 'the missing package manager' -- you do this for HB because there's no package mgr underneath it's not like
by awinter-py 5y ago
makes sense for homebrew maybe because homebrew is 'the missing package manager' -- you do this for HB because there's no package mgr underneath
it's not like npm / pypi are that much better (anyone can post), but at least they have a paper trail.
but until we have an open institutional review culture for OSS, everything is dangerous.
- oceanplexian 5y agoHomebrew could have bundled a Mac Installer and signed it, you know, the officially supported and documented mechanism that Apple gives you to install software. Instead they decided to re-invent the wheel, which is going to bite them every time Apple releases some new security or sandboxing feature.